TOKYO: Japan has appointed a new ambassador for "haiku", picking Herman Van Rompuy, a man used to the sometimes-prosaic world of European politics, to perform its poetry diplomacy.
Haiku is a form of Japanese verse dating back centuries, which traditionally contains 17 syllables -- or, more accurately, morae -- which must come in a 5-7-5 pattern.
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