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The Mitama Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

A woman and her son look at paper lanterns during the Mitama Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Over 30,000 lanterns are displayed and lit up the precincts of the shrine, where more than 2.4 million war-dead are enshrined, during the four-day festival that ends Friday.