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Tue 07 Jul 2008Will G8 gods grant campaigners' wishes?
G8 SUMMIT:G8 leaders are under pressure to deliver more than predictable platitudes by the time the summit wraps up, writes David McNeillin Hokkaido
TANABATA FESTIVAL, which coincidentally fell on the opening day of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Hokkaido, celebrates the granting of wishes. Once a year, Japanese people write prayers on thin strips of paper and hang them on bamboo branches in the hope that those prayers will be answered.
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