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Monday 11 March 2013 11:00 GMT
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A woman walks through a maze of sunflowers growing in a field during a three-day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, some 70 kms north of Tokyo on July 27, 2014. A total of some 200,000 sunflowers welcomed guests for the summer festival, an annual draw for the small town.
A woman walks through a maze of sunflowers growing in a field during a three-day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, some 70 kms north of Tokyo on July 27, 2014. A total of some 200,000 sunflowers welcomed guests for the summer festival, an annual draw for the small town.

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