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#A People’s HISTORY

Thanks to modern air travel and the luck of the weather, I found myself this spring amidst the peak of cherry blossom season in both Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

To start, I helped close our first Milken Institute Japan Symposium on stage with US financier Tom Barrack, Jnr. Our setting: a reception amidst Japanese sakura, arrangements of pink and white cherry blossoms with the Tokyo Tower gleaming in the distance. Days later and an ocean away, I was one of thousands of visitors drawn to the fleeting beauty of Washington’s cherry blossoms.

This latest trip to the US capital city brought me back to the cherry tree-lined Tidal Basin to tape an episode for my YouTube channel with the videographer Jose B Collazo and also to the doors of

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