Sakura season in Tokyo
A selection of our favourite cherry blossom pictures from spring 2016 in Tokyo. Here cherry blossoms are illuminated at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan, March 30, 2016. (Photo by Yuriko […]
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Japan Drone 2016
Chiba, Japan – A man looks at a drone on display during the Japan Drone 2016 at Makuhari Messe on March 24, 2016. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or drones are […]
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Fertility Festival at Tagata Shrine in Japan
A Shinto priest performs a ceremony before a wooden phallus during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (All photos by Ben Weller/AFLO) Men carry […]
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Naked Man Festival in Konomiya
(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Inazawa, Japan – Festival participants wearing traditional Japanese undergarment loincloth make their way through mud and rain towards Konomiya Shrine […]
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Oni Matsuri
Boys are dressed in traditional Shinto clothing during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. The festival celebrates the coming of Spring, and people […]
