Horse chase festival in Fukushima

Horse chase festival in Fukushima

SOMA, Japan - A warrior procession marches on a street in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 28, 2012, in a wild horse chase festival. The three-day Soma Nomaoi, a traditional event dating back more than 1,000 years, began in an almost fully reinstated form after it was scaled down last year in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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