Traditional Yokote Kamakura Festival to start

Traditional Yokote Kamakura Festival to start

Children warm themselves with charcoal braziers inside snow huts in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2017, during a photo event before the two-day Yokote Kamakura Festival, which has a history of about 450 years, begins the following day. The festival features a number of igloo-like snow huts built in locations across the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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