Lantern festival

Lantern festival

KAMAISHI, Japan - Women stand among colorful lanterns at a Zen Buddhist temple in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 13, 2013. The lanterns were lit in the "mantokuyo" event to commemorate the dead, particularly ancestors and victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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