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The Aso Fire Festival held in Kumamoto Prefecture celebrates the coming of spring. A dancing fire ritual is pictured below. The subject line was the Google translation. I liked it so I kept it.

[Via: Asahi]

Early each spring, the magnificent Mount Aso region in Kumamoto Prefecture opens its sightseeing season with a bang in the rituals of the Aso Fire Festival, and giant characters for "fire" are blazed into the area's hills.

Its craggy peaks and countless gurgling hot springs shaped over millions of years by the volcanic activity of Mount Aso, give Kumamoto Prefecture its nickname of "Hi no Kuni (fire country)."

[Cite: Japan Times]

A link to a set of pictures from Aso including some great shots of the fire festival

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