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Mock wedding ceremony features hologram projection

KOBE, Japan - A mock wedding ceremony is held to demonstrate the use of holograms projected on screens at Kobe Portopia Hotel as seen in this file photo taken in Kobe, western Japan, on June 23, 2014.

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'Fox' couple toss beans in shrine festival

YOKKAICHI, Japan - A high school girl (R) and a male office worker wearing fox masks and kimonos throw packets of beans from a stage during a traditional ''setsubun'' festival at Miyamado Shrine in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 3. The couple, wearing the masks as foxes are believed to be messengers from God, also participated in a mock wedding ceremony. The bean-tossing and fox wedding ceremonies are aimed at expelling evil spirits.

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'Fox' couple toss beans in shrine festival

YOKKAICHI, Japan - A high school girl (R) and a male office worker wearing fox masks and kimonos throw packets of beans from a stage during a traditional ''setsubun'' festival at Miyamado Shrine in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 3. The couple, wearing the masks as foxes are believed to be messengers from God, also participated in a mock wedding ceremony. The bean-tossing and fox wedding ceremonies are aimed at expelling evil spirits. (Kyodo)

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Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo