Kamakura Festival to be held in Akita

YOKOTE, Japan - Children roast rice cakes inside igloo-like snow huts called ''kamakura'' in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, on Feb. 14, one day before the two-day Kamakura Festival begins. Children will chat and play around braziers inside the more than 100 huts during the festival which is expected to draw over 300,000 visitors.

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