He loves a parade

Hiroo Takenami, right, a float designer from Aomori, Japan, helps push a base that a <i>nebuta</i> float will rest on. The float, which will be in the Nisei Week Grand Parade in Little Toyko on Sunday, was shipped in pieces from Japan and was reassembled in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles.

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Hiroo Takenami, right, a float designer from Aomori, Japan, helps push a base that a nebuta float will rest on. The float, which will be in the Nisei Week Grand Parade in Little Toyko on Sunday, was shipped in pieces from Japan and was reassembled in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles.

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