Residents of Chichibu City, north of Tokyo, launched handmade rockets into the sky on Sunday to give thanks for the autumn harvest.<br />The rockets are made from pine trees. Logs are hollowed out and then filled with explosives. The instructions for building the rockets are handed down from generation to generation.<br />The rockets flew to a height of 300 meters. The crowd cheered as some of the rockets set off fireworks while others released small parachutes.<br />No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/
