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Fellow Nagasaki JETs on our first night out
Annual Obon festival (Festival of the dead).  Once a year, the recently deceased are supposed to return to their hometowns...
...which isn`t the sombre affair you might think.  This is a model boat being paraded through the street.  After some incredibly loud fireworks and fire crackers, paper boats and lanterns are floated out to sea.  For a while.  Then they are promptly and efficently crushed in a compactor.