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京都で、日本で とても 有名な 祭りの 一つ、「ぎおん祭」が 始まりました。
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In Kyoto, "Gion Matsuri," one of Japan's most famous festivals, has begun.
"Gion Matsuri" is a festival that dates back a thousand years.
Right now, in the city, people are assembling big floats called "yamahoko."
They don't use nails; they join them with ropes only.
The heaviest hoko weighs as much as 12 tons.
On July 17, the yamahoko will move along the streets of the old capital.
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Because that is how Japanese children learn to read. Japan's Ministry of Education fixes exactly which character belongs to which grade — so "grade 3" is a boundary you can verify, not a feeling. Every article here is machine-checked: if a single character sits above its grade, it is not published.
The result: you never hit a character you have not learned. That is the whole reason this product exists.
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