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Keeping traditions

Dear Daughter by BBC

Mar 20, 202618:12Society & Culture

Tamaki talks about her daughter’s Seijin no Hi, Japan’s Coming of Age Day, the annual January celebration for young adults in the country who have turned 20 years old in the past year. In a letter to her daughter, she lo...

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