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Ceremony celebrates coming-of-age in Japan
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-19 10:22


A 20-year-old girl stands on a portable shrine carried by people along the seashore during a purification ceremony at the Katase-Enoshima beach in Fujisawa of Kanagawa prefecture January 18, 2009. The annual ceremony celebrates the coming-of-age for young people. [Xinhua]