Time to become a woman

Twenty-year-old Anne Nakajima kisses her pet dog prior to a Coming of Age Day ceremony in Isumi city, Chiba province, Japan, January 11, 2015. Many young women throughout Japan make appointments one year in advance to get their hair prepared and to be fitted into a kimono for the Coming of Age Day ceremony. Beauty parlors stay open all night in order to handle the rush for styling on Coming of Age Day. The Coming of Age festival is celebrated on the second Monday of January in Japan. All young people who turn twenty years old this year celebrate in the day's ceremony. Age twenty is considered the beginning of adulthood and is the minimum legal age for voting, drinking, and smoking in Japan. [Photo/IC]