Dancers perform at port tourism promotion event

Dancers perform at port tourism promotion event

KYOTO, Japan - Dancers perform in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, on July 25, 2014, at the 15th Kitamaebune Port of Call Forum, an event aimed at promoting tourism at major Japanese port cities where "Kitamae" merchant ships stopped from the Edo period through the Meiji period.

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