Sunday, April 13, 2008

Cherry Blossoms

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The blossoms of cheery trees signal the beginning of Spring. It is celebrated as festival in the Washington DC. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual commemoration of the gift in 1912 of 3,000 cherry trees by Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to Washington as a memorial of national friendship between the United States and Japan and a celebration of the continued close relationship between the people of the two countries.

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