Happy Coming-of-Age!


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Twenty-year-old female tour guides dressed in traditional kimonos pose for a photo at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo as they attend a purification ceremony with a Shinto priest to celebrate Japan’s Coming-of-Age Day on Jan. 10.

JRT celebrates Coming of Age Day, a Japanese public holiday, that honors Japanese youths who will turn 20 years old this year.

News Source: The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/01/13/happy-coming-of-age-day-3/