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Week in Photos: Baby Stars, Baby Monkey, Top Dog, More
Week in Photos: Baby Stars, Baby Monkey, Top Dog, More
Week in Photos: Baby Stars, Baby Monkey, Top Dog, More
Week in Photos: Baby Stars, Baby Monkey, Top Dog, More
Week in Photos: Baby Stars, Baby Monkey, Top Dog, More
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Yokote, Japan, February 14, 2008—Children spend a chilly evening waiting for visitors inside snow shelters in northern Japan.

The igloo-like shelters, called kamakura, hold shrines to the god of water, whom passersby are enticed to worship with offers of rice cakes and sweet wine from the children.

The tradition dates back some 400 years and sets the stage for the town's annual snow festival, which coincides with the lunar new year.

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