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Japan learns English from Obama speech textbook
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-01-20 14:43

A seller displays books featuring US president-elect Barack Obama at a bookstore in Tokyo January 20, 2009. Obama's speeches are proving a best-seller in Japan -- as an aid to learning English. An English-language textbook, "The Speeches of Barack Obama", has sold more than 400,000 copies in two months. [Agencies]