"I bake sweet-chestnut bread," a volunteer says into a microphone.
"I no longer understand what's going on," she carefully reads out next.
The volunteer, Kotobuki Hayashi, 56, is reading short lines of text popping up on a computer screen in front of her. The phrases have been taken randomly from newspapers and books. Studio staff check for any misreads.
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