Shantanu Edgaonkar was crowned winner of the eighth Japan Times Bee on Saturday, earning the right to represent Japan at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington in May.
“I feel really great,” the 13-year-old seventh-grader from Global Indian International School in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, said.
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