Bon Odori is a popular summer festival in Japan, with singing and dancing to the energetic beat of drums, gongs, and the sweet melody of flutes. In Malaysia, the festival dates as far back as 1977.

With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

The annual Japanese Summer Festival is to be held at Federation Square in Melbourne on 23 February this year. Mr Takuo Nogami, the president of the Japanese Society talked about the event.

This north Japan city is crowdfunding using the "hometown tax" donation system to keep an ancient early-summer draft horse ...

holding the key visual by Australian artist Ken Done for a Japanese festival called Japanaroo Source: SBS The augural 'Japanaroo', a new format of a Japanese festival, was held last year with a ...

The fireworks festival, which began in 1966, has been one of the highlights of Hayama's summer, with its 57th ... to scale down the festivities. (Japanese original by Koichi Fukuzawa, Yokosuka ...