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For the Firefighters...

We had a memorial service for the fire fighters behind Sensoji temple today.
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There is the monument for firefighters who had died on their duties.
On the 25th of May, we have this ceremony for them every year.
As part of this event, they have a parade of firemen in traditional garb.
Also, you can see their performance that dramatic and unusual acrobatics
(hashigonori) atop twenty-two-foot-high bamboo ladders.
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