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Asian Culture Festival. Homestead, FL
(3/3-3/4/2012)

The Asian Culture Festival is an annual tradition at the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead.


The Japan booth at the Asian Culture Festival

Students taking Japanese language classes at Miami Palmetto High School helped write guests' names in Japanese


Inside the Japan booth, there were travel and culture brochures, an origami table, and ikebana displays

Volunteers and guests at the Japan booth


Buddhist monks stopping by to have their names written in Japanese

The origami table was a big hit with both guests and volunteers

A Japanese language school student writing a guest's name in Japanese

The highlight of the two-day festival was the wedding processional parade

Ikebana International's Miami Chapter held multiple flower arranging demonstrations and classes

A child learning how to do Japanese-style flower arranging

Mohammed Shakir of Miami Dade County's Asian-American Advisory Board presents Deputy Consul General Sato with a certificate

Between numbers by the Fushu Daiko drumming group, Deputy Consul General Sato thanked everyone for their support following the previous year's major earthquake and tsunami

Fushu Daiko's drumming demonstration was attended by hundreds of guests on both days of the festival