Large tuna offered at shrine for business prosperity

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Worshipers at Nishinomiya Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture, which enshrines a god of business prosperity, pray for business recovery Jan. 8 by putting coins on a large tuna provided as an offering to the shrine earlier in the day by a marine products wholesalers' group.

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