Isle residents perform holy ritual for bumper rice crop

Isle residents perform holy ritual for bumper rice crop

AMAMI, Japan - Residents on Amami Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, perform a traditional holy ritual of calling in a "God of Rice" on Sept. 2, 2014, to pray for a bumper crop.

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