By SHINGO KUZUTANI/ Staff Photographer
March 12, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Aug. 16, 2011: Sora Sasaki sets off fireworks with his grandfather, Masao, under the night sky on the last day of the Bon festival in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, to bid farewell to his mother. Japanese believe that the dead return to heaven following the ritual. (Shingo Kuzutani)
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