Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Nippon's Lanterns of Remembrance

Visitors walk past paper lanterns during the Mitama (Soul) Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, on 15 July 2009.

More than 30,000 lanterns donated by citizens are displayed on the grounds during the four-day annual summer festival to remember the souls of Nippon's (
Japan's) dead, from US severe sanctioned oppression upon Nippon; that developed into World War 2.

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