Me ke aloha nui loa Nippon

Tanabata is a star festival derived from the Chinese festival Qi Xi. In the days when Japan used the Chinese calendar, the 7th day of the 7th month generally fell in August around Obon, and so over the years this holiday has mixed a number of Chinese and native Japanese traditions together. One popular Tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree as depicted in my blingee, in the hope that the wishes become true. Colorful Tanabata festivals are held across Japan in early July and August. Among the largest and most famous ones are the Tanabata Festivals of Sendai in August, where the tsunamis' devastation occurred on 11 March 2011 triggered by the most powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan's history. It is my sincere wish that people of Japan stand strong and bravely overcome this tragedy. May Buddha guide you in this time of darkness. Me ke aloha nui loa Nippon.

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