Boats sail on Osaka river as part of summer festival

A large number of elaborately decorated boats sail on the Okawa River in Osaka, western Japan, amid a display of fireworks on July 25, 2015, in the traditional "Funatogyo" boat procession in the climax of the Tenjin Matsuri summer festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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