Sumo wrestlers put on a show in Tokyo
Sumo’s top wrestlers took part in an annual one-day exhibition for thousands of spectators within the Yasukuni Shrine’s precincts in Tokyo.
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Sumo’s top wrestlers took part in an annual one-day exhibition for thousands of spectators within the Yasukuni Shrine’s precincts in Tokyo.
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Japanese bathers pray for the healthy new year while dipping in a cold water tub with blocks of ice at a park adjacent to Teppozu Inari Shinto Shrine during a winter ritual in Tokyo, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. About 100 people gathered for the mid-winter event to pray for their healthy new year and displayed their perseverance.
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Window cleaners dressed as Santa Claus cleaned windows at a shopping mall in Tokyo’s Daiba bay area, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016.
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The 10th annual EDO Nihonbashi Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo starts July 8 and will continue until September 25, displaying some 8,000 goldfish in various special art exhibits.
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The Naki Sumo, or crying baby contest, took place at Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Friday, April 29, 2016. The babies participated in the annual traditional ritual performed as a prayer for healthy growth of them.
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On March 10, 1945, U.S. B-29 bombers flew over Tokyo in the dead of night, dumping massive payloads of cluster bombs equipped with a then-recent invention: napalm. A fifth of Tokyo was left a smoldering expanse of charred bodies and rubble.
Today, a modest floral monument in a downtown park honors the spirits of the 105,400 confirmed dead, many interred in common graves.
It was the deadliest conventional air raid ever, worse than Nagasaki and on par with Hiroshima. But the attack, and similar ones that followed in more than 60 other Japanese cities, have received little attention, eclipsed by the atomic bombings and Japan’s postwar rush to rebuild.
Reporting by Elaine Kurtenbach and Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
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