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A man walks by an eatery with its facade painted with letters that read “Welcome to Washinomiya” and the characters of a TV animation series “Lucky Star” or “Raki Sta” near Washinomiya Jinja shrine in Kuki, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, Friday, September 16, 2016. Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism – using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where popular “manga” characters are depicted. One shoo-in for the list, according to organizers, is Washinomiya Jinja, a picturesque shrine, which is a familiar scene in the comic by Kagami Yoshimizu, which later became the TV animation series. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
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