Yokohama celebrates 150th birthday with gigantic spiders

Members of the French performance group “La Machine” operate one of two large spider robots, 12 metres tall and weighing 37 tonnes, as it sprays water while being paraded down a street in Yokohama in Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo on April 19, 2009. Spectators enjoyed watching the gigantic spiders “performance”, held during celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the port of Yokohama, Japan’s largest. (Getty)

 

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