August is a great month to be in Japan if you like fireworks. In last Sunday’s newspaper, there was a beautiful photo taken from a helicopter of the Nagara River Fireworks Festival in Gifu City. Some of the best fireworks festivals are held around Japan in August. I’d really like to see the fireworks at Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture and at Kumano in Mie Prefecture. The other day, my granddaughter put on a yukata and went to see fireworks at Inuyama, a city near Nagoya. I asked for a photo, but she sent me a video instead. I really enjoyed it! The fireworks started low, just over the river, but by the end of the show, large rockets were going up and bursting into huge balls of fire high in the night sky.  (133 words)