Star Festival in disaster-hit Sendai

Star Festival in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Around 3,000 green bamboo logs with colorful streamers and strips of paper are arranged in a row in the main commercial arcade of the earthquake- and tsunami-hit city of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, as the annual Star Festival starts on Aug. 6, 2011.

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