Woman offers English info on local life via YouTube

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Satoko Kamada works on her "Sanuk-English" program, as seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 18, 2014, to provide information in English on life in Kagawa Prefecture, a western Japan region known as Sanuki, via the YouTube video-sharing website. Information includes the meaning of local dialects and how to ride trains with electronic cards.

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