'Umbrella dance' Guinness record set in Japan

'Umbrella dance' Guinness record set in Japan

TOTTORI, Japan - A total of 1,688 colorful umbrella-holding people perform a "simultaneous umbrella dance" during a traditional festival in Tottori, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2014, eclipsing the previous Guinness world record of 1,461 dancers established in the Romanian capital of Bucharest in September 2011.

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