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Preparations for New Year

TONOSHO, Japan, Dec. 21 Kyodo - Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 21, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Preparations for New Year

Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 21, 2024.

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Preparations for New Year

Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 21, 2024.

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Giant panda ahead of New Year

Giant panda Rauhin is given a "kadomatsu" traditional Japanese decoration for New Year and ice blocks on Dec. 27, 2023, in the shape of 2024 in celebration of the coming year at the Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

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Giant panda Saihin at western Japan zoo

Four-year-old giant panda Saihin is given a "kadomatsu" traditional Japanese decoration for the New Year and ice blocks carved into the numbers "2023" in celebration of the coming year at the Adventure World zoo and amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 27, 2022.

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Pair of big "kadomatsu" decorations in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A car passes between a pair of big "kadomatsu" New Year decorations erected on a road near temporary homes for people affected by the March 2011 disaster in Ishinomaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 31, 2014.

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Giant panda Fuhin

One-year-old giant panda Fuhin is given a "kadomatsu" traditional Japanese decoration for New Year and ice blocks on Dec. 27, 2021, carved into the numbers of 2022 in celebration of the coming year at the Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

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Preparation for new year

Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 20, 2021.

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Preparation for new year

Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 20, 2021.

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Preparation for new year

Making of "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, is at its peak in Tonosho in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 20, 2021.

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Pair of big "kadomatsu" decorations in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A car passes between a pair of big "kadomatsu" New Year decorations erected on a road near temporary homes for people affected by the March 2011 disaster in Ishinomaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 31, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Preparations for New Year

People make "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, in Tonoshomachi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 24, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Preparations for New Year

People make "kadomatsu" gate pines, a traditional Japanese decoration for New Year, in Tonoshomachi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 24, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo