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Heating up streets
The main event of Kagoshima City’s annual summer feature, "Ogionsaa" festival, took place at the city's Yasaka Shrine in Shimizu-cho and Tenmonkan area on July 22. Some 3,000 people participated in the event, where they paraded nearly 2.5 kilometres through the street carrying portable shrines and delighting the audience with the chants of "Soiya, soiya."
The Shinto festival, which has 400 years of history, has been held to ward off plague as well as to pray for flourishing business. It was designated as the city's intangible folk cultural asset on July 11.
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Bosse's soul rests in Kirishima
A monument in memory of Mr. Gerhard Bosse, one of the founders and the honorary musical director of the Kirishima International Music Festival, who passed away in February, will be erected on the premises of the Miyama Conceru in Kirishima City. His belongings including autographed musical scores and family photographs will be kept under the memorial, and it will be unveiled during the music festival before the special memorial concert for the German-born maestro which is to be held at the hall on July 29th.
The construction of the monument had been realised by donations solicited by three associations --The Friends of Musical Festival in Kagoshima, Makizono and Kirishima-- in line with Bosse's wish that his ashes be laid on the soil of Kirishima.
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AKB's "Yuki-rin" named Satsuma ambassador
The member of popular idol group AKB48, Ms. Kashiwagi Yuki (21) from Kagoshima City, was named Satsuma ambassador to promote Kagoshima Prefecture at the prefectural hall on July 17. She was the youngest ambassador among the 382 people appointed to the same office; and the term is for three years. An official said she may be the first AKB member to become part of the PR envoy for a prefecture.
During the ceremony in the governor's office, Kagoshima Governor Ito Yuichiro revealed his idea saying, "AKB would stand for: Arigato / Kagoshima's / Bussan (Thank you for Kagoshima's product)." Kashiwagi expressed her resolution: "I will try my best so we can hold a concert in Kagoshima" while using the local term "Kibatte" for "try."
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