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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 15 Kyodo - People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years. (Kyodo)

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010.

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010.

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Hakata Yamagasa Festival culminates with float-carrying event

FUKUOKA, Japan - A decorated float called Yamagasa is carried by young men in the precinct of Kushida Shrine in the southwestern city of Fukuoka on the final day of Hakata Yamagasa Festival on July 15.

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Kabuki actor scatters beans to drive out bad luck

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kabuki actor Sakata Tojuro joins a traditional Japanese bean-scattering event to drive out bad luck and bring good luck at Kushida Shrine in Fukuoka in Kyushu on Feb. 3, heralding the arrival of spring.

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Revelers carry float in Hakata Yamagasa festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - Young men carry a decorated float called Yamagasa in the grounds of Kushida Shrine in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan at the end of Hakata Yamagasa festival July 15.

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Women's lib leader Kushida dies at 101

TOKYO, Japan - Women's liberation movement leader and peace activist Fuki Kushida (file photo taken in May 1999) died of natural causes at her home in Tokyo Feb. 5. She was 101. She served as president of the Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations.

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Hakata Yamagasa reaches climax with decorative float rush

FUKUOKA, Japan - Young men carrying a decorative float on their shoulders run at full speed in the yard of Kushida Shrine in the city of Fukuoka, Kyushu, on the morning of July 15. The bearing of the floats called ''yamagasa'' to the shrine is the climax of the 15-day Hakata Yamagasa festival.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float travels toward Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Floats run in climax race of Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival

A float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka in the early hours of July 15, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floats run in climax race of Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival

A float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka in the early hours of July 15, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese deer skin eyed for traditional leather goods

Kenichi Kushida (L), research fellow at the Yamanashi Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, holds the skin of a Japanese deer killed to control the snowballing population of the animal and curb growing damage to farm produce at the Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Technology in Kofu in the central Japan prefecture in July 2015. The prefecture hopes to use domestic deer skin for its traditional "Koshu Inden" leather goods made of imported skin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival wraps up with Oiyama float race

The "Chiyo Nagare" float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival wraps up with Oiyama float race

The "Nishi Nagare" float races through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata Yamagasa Festival culminates with float-carrying event

FUKUOKA, Japan - A decorated float called Yamagasa is carried by young men in the precinct of Kushida Shrine in the southwestern city of Fukuoka on the final day of Hakata Yamagasa Festival on July 15. (Kyodo)

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Kabuki actor scatters beans to drive out bad luck

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kabuki actor Sakata Tojuro joins a traditional Japanese bean-scattering event to drive out bad luck and bring good luck at Kushida Shrine in Fukuoka in Kyushu on Feb. 3, heralding the arrival of spring. (Kyodo)

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Decorated festival float in Fukuoka

A ritual is held at Kushida shrine in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 30, 2020, to bring in a god into decorated festival float "Kazariyamakasa" in hope of an early end to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Decorated festival float in Fukuoka

A ritual is held at Kushida shrine in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 30, 2020, to bring in a god into decorated festival float "Kazariyamakasa" in hope of an early end to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Decorated festival float in Fukuoka

A ritual is held at Kushida shrine in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 30, 2020, to bring in a god into decorated festival float "Kazariyamakasa" in hope of an early end to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women's lib leader Kushida dies at 101

TOKYO, Japan - Women's liberation movement leader and peace activist Fuki Kushida (file photo taken in May 1999) died of natural causes at her home in Tokyo Feb. 5. She was 101. She served as president of the Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations.

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Hakata Yamagasa reaches climax with decorative float rush

FUKUOKA, Japan - Young men carrying a decorative float on their shoulders run at full speed in the yard of Kushida Shrine in the city of Fukuoka, Kyushu, on the morning of July 15. The bearing of the floats called ''yamagasa'' to the shrine is the climax of the 15-day Hakata Yamagasa festival.

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Hakata Yamagasa reaches climax with decorative float rush

FUKUOKA, Japan - Young men carrying a decorative float on their shoulders run at full speed in the yard of Kushida Shrine in the city of Fukuoka, Kyushu, on the morning of July 15. The bearing of the floats called ''yamagasa'' to the shrine is the climax of the 15-day Hakata Yamagasa festival.