Japan's new era Reiwa

Japan's new era Reiwa

Susumu Nakanishi, a recipient of Japan's prestigious Order of Culture and professor emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, comments on Japan's new era name Reiwa at a special exhibition on Japan's oldest existing poetry collection "Manyoshu" held in Toyama city, central Japan, on April 14. Nakanishi, an expert on "Manyoshu," is said to have crafted the name of Japan's new era Reiwa, deriving from the poetry collection," announced by the government on April 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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