In April last year, millions of Japanese turned on their television sets to learn the name of the new Imperial era, a momentous announcement that by quirk of tradition falls to the chief cabinet secretary. They watched as a slight, unsmiling figure with a side-parting bowed and marched towards the podium. “The name of the new era is ‘Reiwa’,” Yoshihide Suga declared.
去年4月,數以百萬計的日本人打開電視機,想知道新天皇即位後日本的年號是什麼。由於一個古怪的傳統,作出這一重大宣佈的責任落到內閣官房長官肩上。觀衆們看到一個身材瘦小、頭髮往一邊梳、臉上無笑容的人物鞠了一個躬,然後向講臺走去。「令和(Reiwa)被選爲新年號,」菅義偉(Yoshihide Suga)宣告。
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