What has 2006 in store for you?

A traditional part of the Japanese New Year is a visit to the local shrine where you pray for a healthy happy year. Then, if you want to know a bit more about what lies ahead, you splash out 100 yen on a piece of paper which will predict what sort of year you will have. Here the woman in red is reading what she can expect in the months to come. Once she's read it, she adds her paper to all the others tied up nearby.