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Coming-of-Age ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea

URAYASU, Japan Kyodo - Disney characters appear at a ceremony for 20-year-olds at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 8, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Coming-of-Age ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea

Women pose for a photo during a ceremony for 20-year-olds at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 8, 2024.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea

Disney characters appear at a ceremony for 20-year-olds at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 8, 2024.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea

Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters appear at a ceremony for 20-year-olds at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 8, 2024.

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Coming of Age Day in Japan

Women dressed in kimono pose for a selfie at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 9, 2023, as a "Hatachi no Tsudoi" (gathering of 20-year-olds) ceremony is held there. Many municipalities have changed the name of their coming-of-age ceremonies since Japan lowered the age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in April 2022.

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Coming of Age Day in Japan

Women dressed in kimono and men in suits pose for a photo at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 9, 2023, as a "Hatachi no Tsudoi" (gathering of 20-year-olds) ceremony is held there. Many municipalities have changed the name of their coming-of-age ceremonies since Japan lowered the age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in April 2022.

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Coming of Age Day in Japan

Mickey Mouse appears at a "Hatachi no Tsudoi" (gathering of 20-year-olds) ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 9, 2023. Many municipalities have changed the name of their coming-of-age ceremonies since Japan lowered the age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in April 2022.

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Coming of Age Day in Japan

Mickey Mouse (front) and other Disney characters appear at a "Hatachi no Tsudoi" (gathering of 20-year-olds) ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu near Tokyo on Japan's Coming of Age Day national holiday on Jan. 9, 2023. Many municipalities have changed the name of their coming-of-age ceremonies since Japan lowered the age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in April 2022.

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New adults form '2020' with 2020 days to go before Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - About 500 new 20-year-olds create the number "2020" at a square in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building during a coming-of-age ceremony on Jan. 12, 2015, which marked 2,020 days to go before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.

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Japanese hip-hop duo HALCALI

TOKYO, Japan - Haruka (L) and Yukari (R), a Japanese female hip-hop duo HALCALI, perform at New York's Central Park as part of a Japan Day cultural festival. The duo of 20-year-olds from Tokyo made their name when some of their tracks were used as theme songs for a popular TV animation series a few years ago. The photo was taken on June 1, 2008. (Kyodo)

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Tsunami in Japan: 5 years on

Combined photos show the gymnasium of a junior high school in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan: on July 11, 2011 (top), serving as a shelter for people who lost their homes in massive tsunami four months earlier; and the same gymnasium on Jan. 10, 2016, when a coming-of-age ceremony was held for 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds who were junior high school students at the time of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo