The Japanese national anthem is said to be the oldest existing, as well as the shortest. It is known as "Kimigayo.” When translated it means somewhat as follows: "May the reign of our Sovereign endure for a thousand years, and for eight thousand more beyond that, until stones are not rocks any more, nor moss any longer grows thickly.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 804, 3 July 1933, Page 10
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