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The fifth day of the fifth month each year is Children’s Day in Japan. It’s been an official national holiday there since 1948, though it traditionally celebrated sons.

Yoshikazu and Mie Tsurumi had two daughters.

“Traditionally, there is a pole from which three carp-shaped windsocks are flown each Children’s Day, one representing the father and mother and son,” said Kazuko Wohlers of Tacoma, one of the Tsurumis’ daughters. “My father never got to fly one.”