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Day for girls who reached 20 in Japan

Updated: 2011-01-10 18:03

(Xinhua)

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Day for girls who reached 20 in Japan
Japanese women in kimonos attend Coming of Age Day event at an amusement park in Tokyo Jan 10, 2011. The Coming of Age day is held annually on the second Monday of January to congratulate all those who have reached the age of 20 years old. According to a local report, about 1,240,000 men and women who were born in 1990, reached the coming of age this year and this figure is the smallest number since 1968 in the world's oldest major country. [Photo/Agencies]


Day for girls who reached 20 in Japan
Japanese women in kimonos take pictures during their Coming of Age Day event at an amusement park in Tokyo Jan 10, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

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