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Scarecrow festival in northeastern Japan

Locally made scarecrows resembling Major League Baseball players Shohei Ohtani (C) and Yusei Kikuchi (R) are displayed with about 80 others at a scarecrow festival in Shiwa in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sep. 4, 2024.

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Scarecrow festival in northeastern Japan

A locally made scarecrow resembling Major League Baseball player Yusei Kikuchi is displayed during a scarecrow festival in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2023.

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Scarecrow festival in northeastern Japan

Locally made scarecrows resembling Major League Baseball player Shohei Ohtani (C) and Nippon Professional Baseball player Roki Sasaki (R) are displayed during a scarecrow festival in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2023.

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Top 3 'lucky man' race finishers hold up character, pictures

OSAKA, Japan - The top three finishers of an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) raise a framed Chinese kanji character and paintings, all suggesting luck, at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. From R: runner-up Yuya Koike, winner Tomonori Shiwa and third-place Koki Ishida.

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Winner of 'lucky man race' at Shinto shrine in west Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Tomonori Shiwa raises the Chinese kanji character "fuku" or luck in a frame as the winner of an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. He reached the main hall of the Shinto shrine ahead of other participants to be crowned the year's lucky man.

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Car parked near site of home swept away by 2011 tsunami

OTSUCHI, Japan - Yoshihiro Abe, who lost his parents in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, has his car parked in this file photo of Aug. 11, 2014, near the site of their home that was swept away by the disaster. He regularly visits the location in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, by driving about two hours from the inland town of Shiwa.