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Kagoshima: Japan Festival Parades Giant Puppet Bearing Swords, Bushy Eyebrows

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

10:59 JST, November 16, 2025

SOO, Kagoshima — A giant puppet, rising to a height of nearly five meters, was paraded through the street for an autumn festival in Soo, Kagoshima Prefecture, in early November.

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