flying colors (fireworks)

Fireworks display breaks world record with flying colors

JUN KANEKO, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Fireworks display breaks world record with flying colors (JUN KANEKO/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

A 3,514-meter-long string of fireworks placed along the coast of the Sea of Ariake in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, colors the sky and water Sunday night. The display broke the record in the Guinness Book of Records of 3,125.79 meters set during the same festival--the Ariake Sea fireworks festa--in 2003. Organizers of this year's festival used about half of their total budget of 16 million yen for the record-breaking "Niagara" fireworks display, which was hoisted about 20 meters off the ground by 21 cranes.(IHT/Asahi: August 26,2008)