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'Aloo Tikki Dijiye': Japanese envoy visits Delhi's Sarojini Nagar; 'I am an Indian now'

Sep 19 (Hindustan Times) - Hiroshi Suzuki, Japanese envoy to India, has become a social media sensation. Millions of people appreciated the ambassador's love of Indian food and culture.

In the latest, the envoy visited Delhi's iconic Sarojini Nagar market with his wife. Hiroshi Suzuki was seen enjoying Indian street food in the bustling market. "Aloo tikki dijiye," said Suzuki in a video he shared on social media platform X. Many people hailed the ambassador as a "very down-to-earth" individual.

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A renewed water outage struck Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture after supplies briefly resumed on February 11th morning, with authorities reinstating water restrictions from 9 p.m. as frozen pipes and low reservoir levels linked to an intense cold wave continued to disrupt supply across the region.

Kiyotaka Mizuno, the oldest man in Japan and the oldest resident in Shizuoka Prefecture, died of natural causes at his home in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on February 8th at the age of 111, according to local authorities.

The arrival of pollen season has once again begun to affect large parts of Japan, but new research aimed at preventing cedar pollen from dispersing is raising hopes that the future could bring relief for millions of sufferers, with scientists working on a method to wither only the male flowers of cedar trees and stop pollen at its source.

JR Tokai has decided to begin construction on the Yamanashi Prefecture station for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen on March 11, marking the start of work on the only station along the Tokyo–Nagoya section where construction had yet to begin.

The women’s snowboard big air final was held at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, where Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Murase Kokomo, 21, of TOKIO Inkarami captured the gold medal, becoming the first Japanese woman to win gold in the event and the first in women’s snowboarding history to reach the podium at two consecutive Olympics.

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