'Lighting pageant' opens in Sendai

'Lighting pageant' opens in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A row of zelkova trees is decorated by about 700,000 light bulbs as this year's ''lighting pageant'' opens on a street in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 12.

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