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"Guarding the Flame" Japanese Boy Scouts are used to guard several
bonfires which line a back walkway at the Meiji Shrine on New Year's Day
morning. The objects burning are special arrows Japanese people keep in
their house to absorb all the bad luck and possible evil which can lurk in a
home. At the end of the year, those arrows are taken to public shrines,
collected, and burned.
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