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Nara Week held in Japan Pavilion

 
Kubota Osamu, vice governor of Japan's Nara Prefecture, delivers a speech.

An artist dressing as Nara mascot Sentokun performs

A week featuring Japan's Nara Prefecture kicked off at the Japan Pavilion on July 23 with a stage drama depicting a Japanese envoy to ancient China's Tang Dynasty (618-907).

People can visit Nara to enjoy Chinese culture because the prefecture preserved many shrines, temples, Buddha statues and wall paintings related to Chinese culture, said Kubota Osamu, vice governor of Japan's Nara Prefecture.

 
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