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Inakadate
Japanese town’s beautiful rice paddy art salutes Osamu Tezuka anime characters, Audrey Hepburn
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Casey Baseel
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Aomori volunteer firefighter arrested for starting fires so he could fight them
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Master Blaster
Nov 16, 2015
In the small town of Inakadate, Shota Kawasaki was both employed at a straw-crafts workshop and a member of his local volunteer fire department. However, this village of 8,000 people was far more famous for its rice paddy art than fires breaking out, and while making straw art is charming in its own way, it can get to be a drag day in and day out.
That’s why Aomori prefectural police are suspecting Kawasaki of starting a series of fires over the past six months; so that he could allegedly feel the rush of putting them out.
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