Carp streamers fly in Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A man looks up at colorful carp streamers raised in the air after being retrieved from the rubble in quake-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 15, 2011. Putting up carp streamers outside homes is a spring tradition around Children's Day on May 5 in Japan.

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