Art museum decorated with figures mimicking newsmakers

Art museum decorated with figures mimicking newsmakers

KOBE, Japan - Visitors take pictures of Christmas decorations mimicking newsmakers in 2014 at "Uroko no Ie" (House of Fish Scales), a Western-style house museum in the historical Kitano district of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2014. The centerpiece Santa Claus figure was modeled on a former assemblyman in the western Japan prefecture whose hysterical weeping at a press conference was widely circulated on the Internet.

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