Tourist attraction lights up to welcome Year of Sheep

CHIBA, Japan - Colorful illumination adorns a pasture at Mother Farm, a tourist attraction in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2014, under the theme "sheep carnival" to welcome the Year of the Sheep in 2015 according to the Chinese zodiac. The illumination event will run through Feb. 1, 2015.

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