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so here we are and cut the guy and you
got the prefecture this is a festival
that's been held for over 400 years in
this town they take their fireworks
seriously in fact there's a shrine
dedicated to it and in Japan we have
something called Tanabe Tai Chi which
are major festivals for fireworks often
going on for over two hours this one
goes on for over three in Tokyo the
fireworks may be this big
here in Catholic I they're this big this
is the young shock Adama over 400
kilograms was in the Guinness Book of
World Records a few years ago as being
the biggest in the world and tonight
we're gonna see this go up into the sky
just how big is this thing
Japanese fireworks eyes is very marked
by their number numbers three and four
the most common in the cities because of
the tall buildings and dense population
but when you have more space you can get
to the shock Adama which is number 10
and much larger then it goes into crazy
mode the young shock Adama invented here
in cut Akai is four times bigger than
that and that's what we'll see tonight
it's fired from a cannon buried in the
ground that's this big let's look at
Japan's Bioworks town of kata Kai and
Niigata first you can see in Tokyo how
dense the buildings and population is
such a crazy idea for super-sized
fireworks is impossible here there's no
space large enough but if you cruise on
over to Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of
Japan side down there you'll see the
kata chi-town is perfect for this kind
of insanity the town is small only 4,000
people and the area around it is all
rice paddies and fields
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the 400-year kata Kai festival is the
event of the year in town people from
all over Japan come in buses to
experience it it's also televised
nationally because it's the only
festival where such a massive firework
artillery shell is shot up annually the
love of fireworks can be seen all over
the town like here on the manhole covers
do you see that vending machine over
there it's wrapped in you guessed it the
massive young shock Adama it also has an
impressive lineup of cheap drinks
there's also young shock Adama Japanese
sake and models of fireworks which make
great piggy banks I visited the inventor
of the young shock Adama in his factory
office to learn more kono kata kite to
taka unique atacama trick to Matt
Sorenson Caraga also known as little too
touchy Aloha Hanavi maturity to you who
you are is anything this Cara Cano
material due to Suzuka you are G mutiny
Hanavi asanga night Oh Dicky night
Matsuri you can see all the sizes his
factory produces the models show the
insides the one I'm holding is most
commonly fired in urban environments
they can't fire bigger ones than this
the Kotik I Matsui fired up the Sun
shocked Adama for the first time in
Japan in over 80 years in 1969 in 1986
Masanori Honda challenged that with a
young shock Adama the biggest ever he
took me into his factory storehouse to
check out what will be used in the
festival we started with the small ones
she's a die-in you're young
Nassau
they're about the size of a grapefruit
our eating good the Magna can you
torture I won it or whatever same won't
ask of you the information like color is
written on the label
here's Honda son's team manufacturing
firework shells
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here's the other finished half of the
firework bomb
they look like melons ready for
transport to the supermarket these
number four fireworks are being taped up
when finished the next one starts staff
needs to be trained and licensed to make
fireworks here taping them well ensures
that they'll survive the cannon blasts
and make it into the air before
exploding the number fours look so small
compared to the number 10 shock Adama
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chicken Domino us cutters we got to go
into the locker where the finished Shaka
Damas for the festival are located
and the yunxiang Kodama it's so big they
stored it outside in another area it
takes about a year to make one right
away you can see just how ridiculously
big it is I know you know something you
have to this we're not great butts too
big butts I was a little hesitant to
enter this room which has kept warm at
all times
oh no no no every night yeah ah look
who's you Chuck units in the Roku's you
young buy them don't buy go kazooie on
by 64 times more powerful than the shack
Adama these four hundred and fifty
kilogram balls filled with stuff that
explodes might make anyone nervous but
they're very well protected
power
no no ma Paco had to talk to me so I
need not do that yeah the Casa de casa
no buckets video quiet mood to chitchat
I'm going to it again artists toka
entertainer doji suddenly the Surrey bar
jack 18 and under that torture there
although it's more hmm still go to see
God move oh no God are you know can it
has to be that they were let's Cristo
yeah so they got Kings head up tomorrow
the morning of the festival it was quiet
but the town was ready this festival is
held annually ever ninth and tenth day
of September the program for the event
is as big as a newspaper
it lists each firework sponsored with a
message from the buyer people can
propose for marriage celebrate a
retirement from a company remember a
loved one with fireworks many are the
number 10 shock Adama sighs several
hours before nightfall a truck with a
crane enters the factory to pick up the
young shock Adama I headed out into the
farm fields with a massive cannon was
buried to watch them loaded in the shock
Adama is now in route from Hondas ons
factory and you can see down there that
is the cannon where they're gonna be
putting the young shock Adama and then
launching it around 10:00 p.m. but it
takes a little bit of effort because
this thing is so big it requires a crane
to lower into the cannon of course great
care is taken when transporting it
honda-san directs the truck to the
launching spot
I was situated on top of a hill that
shields the blast during launch which
gave me a great view of the loading
fireworks in the distance go off to
announce the loading of the young shock
Adama around town
it's carefully lowered into the cannon
where it'll be launched around 10:00
p.m. the finale for the festival
again it weighs about four hundred and
twenty kilograms nine hundred and
twenty-five pounds will be fired up
about eight hundred meters two thousand
six hundred and twenty five feet and
have a width of about eight hundred
meters
it's been about 20 years since there's
been a misfire or problem that's an
incredible record considering the
massive weight of the yogic Adamo which
is the largest firework in the world
shot up by a cannon
we've just seen Honda's on putting the
young shock Adama into the cannon I have
to be honest with you when they removed
it from the truck and started to put it
into the cannon I was a little bit
nervous because you know you never know
there's always a chance that it
something might happen but we have
helmets on which were probably protect
us anyways I'm really even more excited
after seeing it put it in the cannon
what its gonna look like in the sky
tonight we just have to wait about five
hours it's a street food the shrine has
gotten quite festive food stalls are up
and the audience is making its way into
the town from all over the country you
won't go hungry here
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the sunset lights up the sky a preview
of the amazing colors that will light up
the night here the town is very quiet
most residents watching in open spaces
are at the shrines event viewing area
each boom echoes across kata Kai the
shrine is the live Elise plays in town
but why does this fireworks festival
take so long three hours from 7:00 to
10:00 p.m. so every couple of minutes
they'll announce the sponsor of all the
fireworks that are going up up there you
see so that's one of the reasons why
this event will take over three hours
for all of the fireworks to be launched
each one of these is sponsored or has a
message attached to it so you'll see
some massive fireworks taking place
above me there'll be about five or six
of them and they'll be a pause where
they announced the next one and that's
the reason why this event takes three
hours and it will be until about 10:00
10:30 that we see the young shop Adama
to just be patient I put a camera in the
rice paddies it's nice to sit a little
further out and get a more open view
you get a different feeling here than at
viewing in the stands by the shrine
let's speed this up and move on to the
main event
as we drank and ate and enjoyed the
announcements of family friends and work
colleagues sharing a moment with
fireworks 10:00 p.m. quickly sprang upon
us it was time for the young shock Adama
the announcement is exciting
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it's accompanied with a loud alarm
through the town any calls everyone out
one local and meters away they own shell
Kodama didn't fire into the air
exploding at the ground
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the few seconds before the launch seemed
like an hour
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wait that's not right this is the first
time in 20 years the young shock Adama
didn't launch properly there's only is a
risk of this the first of two during the
festival did not launch into the sky
still impressive but to see it all it
needs to travel at least 700 meters into
the sky from the rice paddies about
2,000 meters away it looked like this
and this is what I saw well I felt it
that was a big one I felt that it didn't
quite get into the air but Wow
yeah the young Chuck Gotama didn't go up
into the air explode and show us all of
its glory but there is a risk that it
won't happen and it's quite amazing that
every year despite that risk they just
keep doing it and doing it and doing it
to me that's pretty amazing I like that
spirit that they have but because you
watched all the way to the end I cannot
not show you right this is what the
young Chuck Adama would have looked like
had it gone off this year
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on September 10th success a year's work
becomes a very satisfying 15 seconds
lighting up the Kathak I night sky yes
CIO so they're doing my say that also
did not only Yan Chicago's have good
schools and you began your night
honda-san calls his creation crazy but I
see it as something else he has the
courage to think bigger and take risks
to show something impressive every
single year and the effort a year to
make it but less than a minute in the
sky has earned the respect of a nation
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