Barrel of fun

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, right, joins New York's Japanese Consul General Reiichiro Takahashi, left, and Asia Society President Josette Sheeran during a ceremony as they break the top of a sake barrel open with mallets, to commemorate the opening of the exhibition, "Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan," at the Asia Society in New York on Thursday night.

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