Kite fighting festival in central Japan city

Kite fighting festival in central Japan city

Men hold on firmly to kite strings at a kite fighting festival on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on May 5, 2015. One wins a kite fight by tangling their kite strings and cutting the strings of another to bring that kite down. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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