The Japanese red pine was adopted by Iwate, Okayama and Yamaguchi. The Nambu red pine, as it’s called in Iwate, is usually seen in hilly areas. It was chosen in a public vote coordinated by Mainichi newspaper on September 26 (“the forty-first year of Showa” and “the year of the world fair in Japan”).
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