Festival

Fireworks erupt in the night sky, illuminating two massive floats hung with lanterns during a cro...

SOO, Kagoshima — A giant puppet, rising to a height of nearly five meters, was paraded through th...

ONOMICHI, Hiroshima — Children’s cries echoed throughout a street in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefectu...

USA, Oita — A ceremony was recently held to mark the “homecoming” of the Hachiman deity to Usa Ji...

The first of this year’s traditional Tori-no-Ichi festivals, held each November for good luck and...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima — A pyrotechnic show on water featuring 2,500 fireworks was held off Miyaj...

AKITA — An event in which people disguised themselves as foxes using masks or makeup and marched ...

MATSUYAMA — The Matsuyama Autumn Festival, known for its fierce mikoshi portable shrine collision...

Women in period costume playing two famous writers of the Heian period (794 to the late 12th cent...

Beautifully decorated floats lined the approach to Sakurayama Hachimangu shrine during the Takaya...

SUZU, Ishikawa — Four giant kiriko lantern floats were recently paraded in the Jike district of S...

YAMAGATA — Locals and tourists enjoyed a signature local dish cooked in a giant stewpot big enoug...

TOKUSHIMA — This year’s Awaodori Dance Festival in Tokushima came to an end on Aug. 15. Despite s...

TOYAMA — The Owara Kaze no Bon Festival, a traditional event praying for abundant harvests, kicke...

KOCHI — Gripping naruko clappers — instruments with a castanet-like sound — at Kochi’s Yosakoi Fe...