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from our studios in Tokyo. This is NHK

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news line. I'm Ross Mihora.

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Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing wind, has announced

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she intends to resign as head of the

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ruling Democratic progressive party this

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comes after the DPP suffered

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major losses in Saturday's local

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elections.

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change it thirty? The

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results failed to meet our expectations.

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We humbly accept the results. and

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the decision of the Taiwanese people.

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The elections were the first

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held in Taiwan since the Chinese Communist

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Party's National Congress. ended.

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Tsai had suggested the international community

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would pay attention to the results for that

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reason. She SO SAID THE LOCAL

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ELECTIONS WOULD BE A REFERENDUM ON HER

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ADMINISTRATION. BUT SHE SAYS

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SHE WILL REMAIN AS Taiwan'S PRESIDENT.

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Around eleven thousand mayors, governors,

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and municipal councilors were chosen on

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Saturday. Observeers were eager to

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see which political parties would

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prevail in twenty two of the

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Mayoro and gubernatorial contest.

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Size's body held seven of

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the post before the elections, but

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on Saturday, it only won five.

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This is not just the Qomingtons victory.

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It's a victory for the Taiwanese people

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and Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan.

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The Cuomo dung is Taiwan's

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largest opposition party. It secured

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more than half of the mayorial posts

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in six special municipal districts.

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The party won entire pay. It also

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managed to take the mayor's office back

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from the Democratic progressive party

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in Pyongyang. The

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head of the International Atomic Energy

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Agency says four operational nuclear

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power plants in Ukraine have access

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to the power grid again. the plans earlier

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experienced a complete loss of

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off-site electricity. Nafael

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Grosy, issued a statement on Friday,

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it says that according to agency experts,

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an external power connection

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at the Zappoletia nuclear plant has

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been reestablished a day after

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it was disconnected. Curacao

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said three other nuclear plants had

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been reconnected to the grid and were

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now generating power. Ukrainian

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president Volodymyr Zelensky

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says more than six million people are still

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affected by blackouts caused by

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Russian missile attacks. Yes,

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citizens to remain patient. Shailesh

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spikes in power use are recorded every

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evening. which cause an increase in

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emergency blackouts, now as

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before it is necessary to

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save energy. Zalenski

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visited one of the missile hit areas

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on Friday and inspected a damaged

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apartment building. He called the missile

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attacks, terrorism. Authorities

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in the southern Ukrainian city of Heersong

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say six days of Russian shelling

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through Friday killed fifteen people

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and injured twenty others. Ukraine

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troops reclaimed the city earlier this

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month after nine months of Russian

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occupation. In

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Russia, president Vladimir Putin is calling

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for a boost in weapons production. UK

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defense officials say Moscow is

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running out of long range missiles.

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Butan made the remark on Friday

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at an event in Moscow held by a

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state run defense corporation. He

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said meeting the needs of Russian troops

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is a top priority. The

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British defense ministry said on

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Saturday, Russia is likely removing

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nuclear warheads from aging

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cruise vessels and firing the

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unarmed munitions at Ukraine.

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The ministry says the improvisation

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highlights the level of depletion in

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Russia's stockpile of long range missiles.

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Meanwhile, a ceremony was held in Tokyo

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to remember the millions of Ukrainians who

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died in the nineteen thirty two

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to thirty three famine known

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as the Hododumo. About

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seventy people came out for the event on

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Saturday, some were Ukrainian evacuees

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who fled to Japan after Russia

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began its attacks. A priest

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offered a prayer as the crowd

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mourned the victim of the wholeodomor

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and those of the recent Russian invasion.

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Ukraine marks the wholeodomor on

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the fourth Saturday of every November.

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Ukraine's government says the famine

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was engineered by the government of the

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former Soviet Union and

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calls it genocide. Ukraine's

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ambassador to Japan says Russia's

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invasion is like a repeat of the

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famine ninety years ago. Looking

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back on the horrible days in

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the past, This

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is not the first time that a group

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in Moscow has tried to erase

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Ukraine. He

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says Ukrainians must do their utmost

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until they win.

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it

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A JAPANESE DOCTOR WHO WAS FATALLY

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SHOT IN AFGHANISTAN THREE YEARS AGO IS

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BEING REMEMBERED. HUNDRED IN

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SOUTH WESTERN JAPAN TO KEEP HIS MEMORY

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AND WORK. alive. For

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many years, Nakamuda Tetsu worked

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on Afghan healthcare and farmland

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regeneration projects. He was seventy

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three years old, WHEN HE WAS KILLED.

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Reporter: ABOUT

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four fifty PEOPLE GATHERED ON SATURDAY

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AND FUKOKA TO OFFER SOLID PRayers

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FOR NAKA MURDA, Peshawar Kai,

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the NGO that Nakamoto worked

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with, is based in the city.

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nine

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Doctor Nakamoto said, this flight

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must not be extinguished because of frequent

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dark conflicts. His words help

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support our projects.

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the

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My family and I hope from the bottom of

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our hearts, that the day will come

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soon when people in Afghanistan

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have no problem getting enough daily

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food. and that

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the NGO's projects will continue

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to make that happen.

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During

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the gathering, the NGO announced the

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completion of an irrigation system

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facility and that the group will continue

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with its projects in Afghanistan. Japan

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has donated refrigerated trucks and

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containers to the Philippines for delivering

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coronavirus vaccines. The

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gear is aimed at helping deliver medicine

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to far Lung Islands in the archipelago

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amid sometimes difficult weather

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and transport conditions. Japan

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International cooperation agency

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OFFERED TWO TRUCKS AND six hundred STOREGE

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CONTAINERS TO THE COUNTRY'S DEPARTMENT

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OF HELP ON FRIDAY. THEY

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SAY ONE CONTAINER can store about

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fifty eight hundred doses of vaccines.

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It can also keep them at minus two

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degrees Celsius or colder

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for about one hundred hours. tropical

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heat and the distance between islands have

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made it difficult for authorities in the Philippines

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to deliver medicine that must

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be kept cold. the donated containers

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can be carried by sea. The

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health department of the Philippines says

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it has had to abandon more than

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thirty one million doses That's

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about twelve percent of all shots procured

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by the government given up because

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of difficulties in delivery.

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Visitors took in the autumn foliage

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inside the Imperial Palace grounds for

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the first time in three years after

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a section was reopened to

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the public. People

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began lining up at the gates early on

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Saturday morning. They strolled down

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a six hundred meter long avenue, which

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is lined with around seventy

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Maple trees of eight different varieties.

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The area has been open to the

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public since twenty fourteen during

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the spring cherry blossom season

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and in the autumn when the leaves changed

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color. But viewings were suspended

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when the coronavirus pandemic began.

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I

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was able

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to enjoy the beautiful garden as

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it was neatly maintained.

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I think it was a valuable

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experience to be able to enter

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a place that is not usually open

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to the public. The

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street will remain open to the public

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through December fourth.

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Those were

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the stories for the

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sauer.

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he

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oh a

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he

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all

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I SPHora in Tokyo and

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that's all we have for

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now on NHK news line.

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Thanks for staying with us.