Tanabata is a traditional Japanese festival, where people write wishes on strips of paper and hang them on bamboo branches. This seven-day event, however, is doing things differently.

Celebrate Tanabata with Chiyo Sanada! Write your wishes on colorful paper using traditional calligraphy, then hang them up as part of the Japanese festival of stars.

File photo. Cheetah released following its translocation from Namibia, in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, September 17, 2022. India's Press Information Bureau/Handout via Reuters.

For more than 30 years, the Shofuso house has celebrated the historical Japanese festival of Tanabata, attracting residents to learn and commemorate the holiday.

An eight-year-old female Namibian Cheetah named Nabha died at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.

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People look at colorful decorations on Friday during the Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, as the festival, one of the most famous of its kind in Japan, kicks off.