Fuji Rock Festival

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Japan's annual Fuji Rock Festival, seen here during the 2010 event, will be held this weekend. Organizers of the festival and various other events are forging ahead with plans this summer, despite the ongoing fallout from disasters that devastated the country in March. "The people need it," Fuji Rock founder Masa Hidaka said. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)