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Decorated float for Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - "Kazari Yamakasa," a decorated float, for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is shown in Fukuoka City on July 1, 2014. The festival with a history of over 770 years opened the same day.

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G-7 finance ministers in photo session

FUKUOKA, Japan - Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7) major economic powers line up for a photograph at Fukuoka City Museum. From left to right, EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Pedro Solbes Mira, U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Laurent Fabius, Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, German Finance Minister Hans Eichel and Italian Minister of the Treasury Vincenzo Visco. Behind the ministers stands a decorated ''Kazari-Yamagasa'' float, centerpiece of the city's July 1-15 Hakata Gion Yamagasa Festival in which several floats are raced.

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Shime-kazari,a sacred festoon,and a geisha

A geisha stands under the Shimekazari (rope decoration) dressed as a strolling singer (Torioi onna). Strolling singers collected donations wearing a braided hat and playing the shamisen.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number44‐20‐0]