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'History girls' become latest Japanese trend

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Japan is a country of fads and obsessions, and the latest among young women is an interest in history.

The trend is so big that one newspaper has put rekijo, or history girls, into its list of top 10 buzzwords of the year.

Roland Buerk reports.

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