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A fireworks display caps off the Yokota Air Base Japanese-American Friendship Festival in Yokota, Japan, Aug. 23, 2009. More than 170,000 people attended the event designed to bolster the bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan.

FRIENDSHIP FIREWORKS

A fireworks display caps off the Yokota Air Base Japanese-American Friendship Festival in Yokota, Japan, Aug. 23, 2009. More than 170,000 people attended the event designed to bolster the bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan.

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