Giant float paraded at festival in northern Japan

GOSHOGAWARA, Japan - One of 16 lanterns with effigies of samurai warriors on floats, the biggest of them over 20 meters high, is paraded through a street of Goshogawara in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, at an annual "Tachi-neputa" float festival amid constant chanting "Go get 'em" by dancers in "yukata" light cotton summer kimono on Aug. 4, 2014.

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