Beauty and the heat make for scorching Aizu Tajima Gion Festival

Accordding to The Mainichi Daily News, Minamiaizu, Fukushima -- On July 23, some 100 participants, including to the 30 women dressed in colorful wedding kimono, marhed about 300 meters along a street in Minamiaizu for half an hour under the heat for praying a good luck and good harvests. This fastval has been more than 800 years of tradition, is designeted by the Japanese government as a significnt intangible fol cultural asset.