Airplane Flies Over the Construction Sit

A domestic airplane flies over the construction sit on October 27, 2011 in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Auction Takes Place To Decide The Most Expensive Beef In Kobe

A cow rests in a pen during the 93rd Hyogo Prefecture Livestock Industry Promoting Auction on October 23, 2011 at Nishiwaki in Kobe, Japan. Kobe beef is one of most expensive beef around the world and this year highest priced bull sold at auction 5,001,000 Japanese yen (65,578.28 U.S. Dollars). The highest priced bull's  weight 790 kilogram.  

Livestock Industry Promoting auction organizing official said auction price of Kobe and Tajima beef this year become less demand due to March 11 Fukushima nuclear accident and economy crises. 

About 800 kilogram wait 106 cows and bulls bring to competition and auction which cows bring around the Kobe. 65 cows sold for Kobe meat and others sold for cattle farm. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Highest priced Kobe bull

Livestock farmer Nobo Fujimoto holds this year highest priced Masaru, Kobe bull after the won the competition during the 93rd Hyogo Prefecture Livestock Industry Promoting Auction on October 23, 2011 at Nishiwaki in Kobe, Japan. Two years and 8 months old Masaru is weight 790 kilogram and sold 5,001,000 Japanese yen (65,578.28 U.S. Dollars) (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Nada Fight Festival

Shrine Parishioners bump their portable shrines during Nada No Kenka Matsuri, or Nada Fight Festival of Matsubara Hachiman Shrines at Otabi Mountain on October 16, 2011 in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. The fight, the highlight of the shrine's Autumn Harvest Festival as part of the thanking to god and nature. Over 100,000 people visit the Nada No Kenka festival in every year. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Japan Commemorate 7 Months Anniversary Of Earthquake And Tsunami

Japanese Tendai-Syu Buddhist monks pray for earthquake and Tsunami victims during the moon seen festival on October 9, 2011 in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Japan is marking seven months since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan offshore on March 11 at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan and also damaging the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis in decades. The current number of dead and missing is reportedly estimated to be 22,900. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Fukushima no-entry zone people spend the day with their pet dogs first time after the evacuated

Animal Shelter Taking Care Of Pets From Tsunami Area

ALONE AGAIN 

A staff member holds the pet dog of a family after they left during the annual festival at Happy House on October 8, 2011 in Osaka, Japan. The NPO Japan Animal Trust (JAT) are taking care about 200 of the cats and dogs for their owners who are unable to keep their pets due to their current housing conditions and the fact that they are living outside the no entry zone of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster area. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Buddhist Monks Collect Alms

Shingon-Shu Buddhist Monks Collect Alms on September 29, 2011 in Himeji city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

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