Ex-Japanese prime minister plants cherry trees in Tainan

Hundreds of people joined former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in planting cherry trees in Tainan Saturday in a gesture to thank Taiwan for its assistance following a massive earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan last year.

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