Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. A Japanese white‑eye bird chirps in an ume plum grove in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in March 2025. (Asahi Shimbun ...

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