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In 1912, Japan sent Washington D.C. 3,000 cherry trees as a gift. Two years ago, it sent 250 more, one for every year of the American experiment. Those trees are in the ground now as part of a long-overdue Tidal Basin renovation that also brought wider walkways and a repaired seawall. They will bloom for the first time this month.