BBCNEWS Our World July 5, 2021 00:33:00
Tokyo, for this special edition of witness history, celebrating five extraordinary moments injapanese history, as told to us by people who were there. coming up: the trees that survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima and stand as beacons of hope. the campaign to make the contraceptive pill available in japan. and an imperial wedding that broke with tradition. but first we head back to 1964, ahead of the first olympic games here in tokyo when the fastest train the world had ever seen was launched. the shinkansen, or bullet train, ran between tokyo and osaka and reached a top speed of 210 kilom...
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