Fukushima horse chase festival

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Men chase a horse in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on the last day of the three-day Soma Nomaoi traditional wild horse chase festival on July 30, 2012. The annual event was held 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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