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Baseball: Dodgers' Japanese players dolls

TOKYO, Japan, March 18 Kyodo - Traditional Japanese warrior dolls resembling the three Japanese playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki -- are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 18, 2025, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls to wish for the healthy growth of boys. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Dodgers' Japanese players dolls

Traditional Japanese warrior dolls resembling the three Japanese playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers -- (from L) Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki -- are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 18, 2025, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls to wish for the healthy growth of boys.

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Baseball: Samurai dolls of Dodgers' Ohtani, Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan, March 19 Kyodo -"Samurai" warrior dolls of Shohei Ohtani (top, L) and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto (top, R) of the Los Angeles Dodgers are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls. Seen below them are dolls of sumo wrestlers from central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, hit by a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1.(Kyodo)

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Baseball: Samurai dolls of Dodgers' Ohtani, Yamamoto

"Samurai" warrior dolls of Shohei Ohtani (far L) and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2nd from L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls. Seen behind them are dolls of sumo wrestlers from central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, hit by a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1.

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Baseball: Samurai dolls of Dodgers' Ohtani, Yamamoto

"Samurai" warrior dolls of Shohei Ohtani (far L) and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2nd from L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls. Seen behind them are dolls of sumo wrestlers from central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, hit by a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1.

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Baseball: Samurai dolls of Dodgers' Ohtani, Yamamoto

"Samurai" warrior dolls of Shohei Ohtani (top, L) and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto (top, R) of the Los Angeles Dodgers are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls. Seen below them are dolls of sumo wrestlers from central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, hit by a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1.

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Baseball: Samurai dolls of Dodgers' Ohtani, Yamamoto

"Samurai" warrior dolls of Shohei Ohtani (top, L) and rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto (top, R) of the Los Angeles Dodgers are unveiled by doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo on March 19, 2024, ahead of the boys' festival on May 5, when Japanese households traditionally decorate warrior dolls. Seen below them are dolls of sumo wrestlers from central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, hit by a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1.

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Athletes featured as Japan's hina doll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2014, at a Tokyo hotel shows unique "hina dolls," to be usually displayed on the March 3 Doll Festival, featuring Olympic and world figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu (L) and tennis player Kei Nishikori.

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'Hina' doll festival in Tokushima, Japan

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Children from a nursery carry a miniature "mikoshi" portable shrine in front of a tiered platform of some 30,000 dolls on display ahead of a "hina" doll festival in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 23, 2014. The event, a precursor to the March 3 Girls' Day festival, will run through April 6.

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'Hina' doll festival in Tokushima, Japan

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Some 30,000 dolls are on display during a "hina" doll festival in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 23, 2014, ahead of the Girls' Day festival on March 3. In Japan, hina dolls are traditionally displayed by families with girls to celebrate the "hina-matsuri" festival each spring.

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Japanese doll in tsunami-hit area

OFUNATO, Japan - A ''Gogatsu Ningyo'' (May doll), usually used for decoration during the boys' festival in May, stands with the assistance of roof tiles at the site of a demolished house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on May 7, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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JAL, ANA mark Hina Matsuri doll festival

TOKYO, Japan - Female employees of Japan Airlines Corp. welcome passengers at a boarding gate decorated to mark the Hina Matsuri doll festival, a festival for girls, at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3, 2010. JAL and All Nippon Airways Co. ran domestic flights operated mostly by female crew, including copilots and mechanics, the same day to highlight the role of women in the airline industry.

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30,000 dolls displayed in Tokushima ahead of Doll's Festival

KATSUURA, Japan - About 30,000 'hina dolls' are displayed in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2010 ahead of the Doll's Festival in Japan on March 3.

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JAL flies special Hina Matsuri flight

TOKYO, Japan - Female mechanics line up near a Japan Airlines Corp. Boeing 767 at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3 before Flight 767 departs for Hiroshima. Other than the pilot, all 36 flight crew and mechanics assigned to the flight were women, demonstrating the range of careers open to the company's female employees. March 3 in Japan is Hina Matsuri, a doll festival for girls.

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JAL flies special Hina Matsuri flight

TOKYO, Japan - Madoka Tachikawa, a co-pilot of Japan Airlines Corp., poses in front of a JAL Boeing 767 at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3 prior to Flight 1605's departure for Hiroshima. Other than the pilot, all of the 36 flight crew and mechanics assigned to the flight were women, demonstrating the range of careers open to the company's female employees. March 3 in Japan is Hina Matsuri, a doll festival for girls.

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30,000 used 'hina' dolls start new life in Tokushima museum

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Staff members of the Ningyo Bunka Koryukan doll museum display some of the 30,000 used ''hina'' dolls on a 7-meter-high pyramid Feb. 19 for a month-long festival starting Feb. 22 at the museum in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture. They are among some 70,000 used dolls collected from homes nationwide. The ''hina'' dolls are usually displayed on a much smaller stand in Japanese homes to bring happiness to young girls around early March.

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Gold 'hina dolls' displayed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman looks at a pair of ''hina dolls'' made of pure gold worth 10 million yen at a branch of precious metal dealer GINZA TANAKA in Nagoya on Feb. 19. The dolls, which are about 10 centimeters high and weigh one kilogram, are being displayed ahead of the Japanese Doll Festival for girls, or Hina Matsuri, on March 3.

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Children dress up as dolls in Japan's Doll Festival

MAEBASHI, Japan - Twenty-one kindergarten pupils dressed in ancient Japanese costumes duplicate the traditional display of Japanese dolls at the Japanese Doll Festival held at the Ikaho hot spring spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 3.

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Dolls displayed ahead of March 3 Doll's Festival

KATSUURA, Japan - About 15,000 dolls are displayed in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 18 ahead of the March 3 Doll's Festival. The dolls will be shown until March 21.

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20,000 dolls displayed ahead of March 3 festival

KATSUURA, Japan - About 20,000 dolls are displayed in Katsuura in Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 19 ahead of the March 3 Doll's Festival.

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Silver 'hina' dolls to be sold to commemorate princess' wedding

TOKYO, Japan - A set of silver ''hina'' dolls commemorating the wedding of Princess Sayako on Nov. 15 is displayed at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 22. The set consists of two dolls representing an emperor and empress wearing the court dress of the Heian period (794-1185) and three dolls representing court ladies serving the emperor and the empress, sitting on a vermillion-lacquered platform. Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. will sell the ''hina'' dolls at 150,000 yen per set for display at the annual March 3 Doll Festival.

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15,000 dolls on display in 'Big Doll Festival'.

KATSUURA, Japan - A girl sucks her thumb besides some 15,000 dolls put on display for the annual ''Big Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival)'' that began in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 22. The doll festival is celebrated across Japan on March 3. The practice of displaying dolls dates to early in the Edo era (1600-1868). Parents present their daughter with a set of hina dolls and the daughter takes them when she marries.

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Dolls to be floated out to sea to drive out evil spirits

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Some 5,000 spectators watch as small boats full of dolls are carried from Awashima Shrine to a nearby beach in Wakayama, western Japan, on Doll's Festival day March 3. The dolls, donated to the shrine from all over the nation, will be floated out to sea the next day in hopes of banishing evil spirits.

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Big 'Hina Matsuri' (Doll Festival) begins in Katsuura

KATSUURA, Japan - Girls clad in kimono stand for a photo in front of some 600 hina ningyo (a set of dolls representing emperor, empress, attendants and musicians in ancient court dress) at Tomisaki Shrine in the city of Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 22. The dolls were placed on a red carpet on stairs leading to the shrine's gate. The city's 'Big Hina Matsuri' (Doll Festival) will run until March 2.

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'Hina Nagashi' rite observed

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A wooden boat loaded with ''hina'' dolls is tossed into the sea off Kata, Wakayama, on March 3 in the ''Hina Nagashi (floating of dolls)'' rite observed in some parts of Japan on the traditional ''Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival)'' day.

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Doll-float ceremony in Wakayama

A seasonal doll-float ceremony was held on Kada beach in Wakayama, western Japan, on March 3, the Doll's Festival day. Some 20,000 dolls were sent to the ceremony, where a service was held to drive away evil spirits by floating many dolls out to sea. About 15,000 residents and tourists gathered to watch the three small doll-carrying boats decorated with peach and rape blossoms.

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SPAIN-VALENCIA-THE FALLAS FESTIVAL

(220320) -- VALENCIA, March 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A giant doll is set on fire during the Fallas Festival celebrations in Valencia, Spain, on March 19, 2022. The Fallas Festival is a traditional celebration with exhibition of gigantic dolls, well-dressed parades and fireworks in the city of Valencia, Spain. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo)

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SPAIN-VALENCIA-THE FALLAS FESTIVAL

(220320) -- VALENCIA, March 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A giant doll is set on fire during the Fallas Festival celebrations in Valencia, Spain, on March 19, 2022. The Fallas Festival is a traditional celebration with exhibition of gigantic dolls, well-dressed parades and fireworks in the city of Valencia, Spain. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo)

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Doll-float ceremony in Wakayama

A seasonal doll-float ceremony was held on Kada beach in Wakayama, western Japan, on March 3, the Doll's Festival day. Some 20,000 dolls were sent to the ceremony, where a service was held to drive away evil spirits by floating many dolls out to sea. About 15,000 residents and tourists gathered to watch the three small doll-carrying boats decorated with peach and rape blossoms.

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Tokyo, Osaka governors featured as traditional Japanese dolls ?

TOKYO, Jan. 27 Kyodo - A?traditional?doll maker that unveils new figures featuring prominent newsmakers each year has chosen the governors of Tokyo and Osaka, two cities with high numbers of novel coronavirus cases, this time as a gesture of hope for an end to the pandemic.?Tokyo-based Kyugetsu Co. revealed the hina?dolls?of Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, 68, and Hirofumi Yoshimura, 45, on Wednesday at its headquarters ahead of Girls' Day on March 3.?In Japan, hina?dolls, representing an emperor, empress and their attendants wearing the court dress of the Heian period (794-1185), are?traditionally displayed by families with girls to celebrate the Girls' Day festival each spring.The firm also revealed?dolls?representing U.S. President Joe Biden, 78.

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"Hina" dolls on display in Gunma

About 3,000 "hina" dolls, or Japanese traditional dolls in colorful court dress, are displayed in a hot spring resort in Numata, Gunma Prefecture in eastern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2016, ahead of the March 3 Hina Matsuri, or the Doll Festival. Japanese families celebrate the festival to pray for the happiness and health of daughters by setting up displays of dolls in their homes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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30,000 "hina" dolls displayed in Tokushima Pref.

About 30,000 "hina" dolls, collected from homes nationwide after the owners stopped using them, are displayed on an 8-meter-high, 27-step pyramid stand in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2016, for an event through April 3. Families celebrate Hina Matsuri, or the Doll Festival, on March 3 to pray for the happiness and health of daughters by setting up displays of dolls in their homes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyramid decorated with dolls on display

A seven-meter tall pyramid festooned with hina dolls, Japanese traditional dolls in colorful court dress, is on display at a shopping mall in Konosu, a traditional hina doll production site, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 18, 2016. The display was prepared ahead of the March 3 doll festival in which Japanese households wish health and happiness for their young female family members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyramid decorated with dolls on display

A seven-meter tall pyramid festooned with hina dolls, Japanese traditional dolls in colorful court dress, is on display at a shopping mall in Konosu, a traditional hina doll production site, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 18, 2016. The display was prepared ahead of the March 3 doll festival in which Japanese households wish health and happiness for their young female family members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boats of "hina" dolls released in ritual for girl's happiness

Photo taken March 3, 2015, the day of the Doll Festival in Japan, shows "hina" dolls donated to Awashima Shrine in the western city of Wakayama being sent to sea in small boats in a ritual to pray for the happiness and growth of girls. Around 400 dolls were set afloat on three white boats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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30,000 "hina" dolls displayed in Katsuura, Tokushima Pref.

About 30,000 "hina" dolls, collected from homes nationwide after the owners stopped using them, are displayed on a 8-meter-high pyramid stand in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 22, 2015, for an event through April 5. Families set up a special step-altar on which to arrange the dolls to celebrate the Hina Matsuri, or the Doll Festival, on March 3rd every year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children dress up as dolls in Japan's Doll Festival

MAEBASHI, Japan - Twenty-one kindergarten pupils dressed in ancient Japanese costumes duplicate the traditional display of Japanese dolls at the Japanese Doll Festival held at the Ikaho hot spring spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 3. (Kyodo)

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JAL flies special Hina Matsuri flight

TOKYO, Japan - Madoka Tachikawa, a co-pilot of Japan Airlines Corp., poses in front of a JAL Boeing 767 at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3 prior to Flight 1605's departure for Hiroshima. Other than the pilot, all of the 36 flight crew and mechanics assigned to the flight were women, demonstrating the range of careers open to the company's female employees. March 3 in Japan is Hina Matsuri, a doll festival for girls. (Kyodo)

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JAL flies special Hina Matsuri flight

TOKYO, Japan - Female mechanics line up near a Japan Airlines Corp. Boeing 767 at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3 before Flight 767 departs for Hiroshima. Other than the pilot, all 36 flight crew and mechanics assigned to the flight were women, demonstrating the range of careers open to the company's female employees. March 3 in Japan is Hina Matsuri, a doll festival for girls. (Kyodo)

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30,000 used 'hina' dolls start new life in Tokushima museum

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Staff members of the Ningyo Bunka Koryukan doll museum display some of the 30,000 used ''hina'' dolls on a 7-meter-high pyramid Feb. 19 for a month-long festival starting Feb. 22 at the museum in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture. They are among some 70,000 used dolls collected from homes nationwide. The ''hina'' dolls are usually displayed on a much smaller stand in Japanese homes to bring happiness to young girls around early March. (Kyodo)

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Gold 'hina dolls' displayed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman looks at a pair of ''hina dolls'' made of pure gold worth 10 million yen at a branch of precious metal dealer GINZA TANAKA in Nagoya on Feb. 19. The dolls, which are about 10 centimeters high and weigh one kilogram, are being displayed ahead of the Japanese Doll Festival for girls, or Hina Matsuri, on March 3. (Kyodo)

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Silver 'hina' dolls to be sold to commemorate princess' wedding

TOKYO, Japan - A set of silver ''hina'' dolls commemorating the wedding of Princess Sayako on Nov. 15 is displayed at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 22. The set consists of two dolls representing an emperor and empress wearing the court dress of the Heian period (794-1185) and three dolls representing court ladies serving the emperor and the empress, sitting on a vermillion-lacquered platform. Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. will sell the ''hina'' dolls at 150,000 yen per set for display at the annual March 3 Doll Festival. (Kyodo)

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Japanese doll in tsunami-hit area

OFUNATO, Japan - A ''Gogatsu Ningyo'' (May doll), usually used for decoration during the boys' festival in May, stands with the assistance of roof tiles at the site of a demolished house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on May 7, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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JAL, ANA mark Hina Matsuri doll festival

TOKYO, Japan - Female employees of Japan Airlines Corp. welcome passengers at a boarding gate decorated to mark the Hina Matsuri doll festival, a festival for girls, at Tokyo's Haneda airport on March 3, 2010. JAL and All Nippon Airways Co. ran domestic flights operated mostly by female crew, including copilots and mechanics, the same day to highlight the role of women in the airline industry. (Kyodo)

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30,000 dolls displayed in Tokushima ahead of Doll's Festival

KATSUURA, Japan - About 30,000 'hina dolls' are displayed in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2010 ahead of the Doll's Festival in Japan on March 3. (Kyodo)

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Athletes featured as Japan's hina doll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2014, at a Tokyo hotel shows unique "hina dolls," to be usually displayed on the March 3 Doll Festival, featuring Olympic and world figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu (L) and tennis player Kei Nishikori. (Kyodo)

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'Hina Nagashi' rite observed

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A wooden boat loaded with ''hina'' dolls is tossed into the sea off Kata, Wakayama, on March 3 in the ''Hina Nagashi (floating of dolls)'' rite observed in some parts of Japan on the traditional ''Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival)'' day.

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Japanese Boys' Festival dolls of promising persons unveiled

Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Co. unveils Japanese dolls depicting promising men in 2017 -- (from L) comedian Piko Taro, yokozuna Kisenosato and figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu -- at its headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2017, ahead of the May 5 Boys' Festival. Japanese households traditionally decorate samurai dolls to celebrate boys on the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Boys' Festival dolls of promising persons unveiled

Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Co. unveils Japanese dolls depicting promising men in 2017 -- (from L) yokozuna Kisenosato, figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu and comedian Piko Taro -- at its headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2017, ahead of the May 5 Boys' Festival. Japanese households traditionally decorate samurai dolls to celebrate boys on the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese "hina" dolls of 2017 promising persons unveiled

Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Co. unveils special "hina" dolls wearing traditional court dress depicting celebrities who are expected to come up big in 2017, at its headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2017. The dolls made by the company are those depicting (from top L in clockwise) Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori, Japanese ski jumper Sara Takanashi, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and U.S. President Donald Trump. Hina dolls are traditionally displayed in the Japanese girls' festival on March 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo