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Fire festival in Wakayama

Local high school archery club members shoot flaming arrows to ignite a fire on a 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field during a fire festival on a cape facing the Pacific Ocean in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2026.

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Fire festival in Wakayama

A 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field on a cape facing the Pacific Ocean is burned as a fire festival is held in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2026.

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Fire festival in Wakayama

Local high school archery club members shoot flaming arrows to ignite a fire on a 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field during a fire festival on a cape facing the Pacific Ocean in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2026.

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Fire festival in Wakayama

A 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field on a cape facing the Pacific Ocean is burned as a fire festival is held in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2026.

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Fire festival at cape facing Pacific Ocean

High school archery club members shoot flaming arrows to ignite a 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field during a fire festival on a cape facing the Pacific Ocean in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 18, 2025.

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Fire festival at cape facing Pacific Ocean

High school archery club members shoot flaming arrows to burn a 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field as an annual fire festival begins at a cape facing the Pacific Ocean in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 27, 2024.

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Fire festival at cape facing Pacific Ocean

A 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field at a cape facing the Pacific Ocean is burned as an annual fire festival is held in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 27, 2024.

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Fire festival at cape facing Pacific Ocean

A 100,000 square-meter turf-covered field at a cape facing the Pacific Ocean is burned as an annual fire festival is held in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 27, 2024.

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Okinawa citizens protest U.S. military presence following rape

URASOE, Japan - Residents in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, tie about 100,000 handkerchiefs decorated with antimilitary messages to fences surrounding a local U.S. military base on July 20 in protest at the recent rape of an Okinawa woman allegedly by a U.S. serviceman. About 100 protesters tied the handkerchiefs, sent from several parts of Japan and blazoned with messages such as ''No to the bases!,'' ''Never tolerate violence against women'' and ''Peace'' to fences surrounding the U.S. Marine Corps' Makiminato Service Area, a 2,750,000-square-meter storage facility.