Phoenix boat pulled in Nagasaki Buddhist festival

NAGASAKI, Japan - Participants haul a boat in the shape of a Phoenix in the midst of bell sounds and fireworks during the "Shoro Nagashi" Buddhist festival to send off ancestral spirits in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2014.

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