PHOTO of the DAY (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Work to make ornaments and decorations for the Tanabata festival, or the star festival, swings into full gear in Ichinomiya, Nagoya, ahead of the start of the festival on July 28. The festival is one of the three biggest Tanabata events in Japan. Some of the decorations carry messages expressing hopes for early recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Mainichi)



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Residents of areas around the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant demonstrate in front of the National Diet Building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on July 12, 2011, demanding a quick end to the nuclear crisis and a return to their homes. Around 300 people, many of them seniors, participated in the demonstration under temperatures that reached over 32 degrees Celsius. (Mainichi)


Traders bid for fish on July 12 at a temporary facility of Ishinomaki fishing market in Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. It was the first auction at the market in four months. Fish were sold for two to three times the normal prices as many dealers offered higher prices in celebration of the reopening of the market. (Mainichi)


A Japan Airlines jet dwarfs photographers as it comes in for a landing at an airport in Osaka Prefecture.

[malaise]

1. The photo of the day will be the smile on Sawa's face

as she scored that second goal for Japan. :D

[AsahinaKimi]

3. wow!

3-1 Japan! Ganbareyo Nihon!!

[malaise]

4. Nahomi Kawasumi scored twice

http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/players/player=298544/index.html
3-1 is the same result as the US v France earlier today

[AsahinaKimi]

5. SO happy

Ureshiyo!!!! Woot!!!

[PoliticAverse]

2. Someone checking that fish for radiation?... n/t