Visitors to Yasukuni Jinja Shrine for 'Mitama Matsuri', Tokyo, Japan.

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Visitors to Yasukuni Jinja Shrine for 'Mitama Matsuri', Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, July. 16th 2005. The Mitama Matsuri is an annual festival, meaning "Festival To Enshrine the Spirit of the Dead". Yasukuni Shrine is controversially known as Japans shrine to the war dead, including the spirits of Class 'A' war criminals.

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Location: Tokyo Japan
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