Japan comes alive with matsuri, festivals that celebrate local culture and traditions throughout the country. From the icy ...

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The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates to 1950 in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. The festival features around 200 sculptures, according to the Japan ...

Since moving to Japan in 2013, I have attended multiple Vietnamese cultural festivals, including the Vietnam Festival held annually in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park, but never a Tet festival. So when I ...

The festival is believed to have started around 700 years ago during the Nanboku-cho period (1336-1392). The prefectural government has designated the festival an intangible folk cultural property.

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

Of that number, Japanese nationals and those who had obtained permanent resident status through marriage and other circumstances accounted for about 47,000, more than double the estimate of 10,000 ...

A 30-year-old woman pleaded guilty Monday to charges of helping to move cash stolen in a fatal burglary in Yokohama last October in which a 75-year-old man was killed. “I don’t know where the ...

Today Islamic date in Japan is calculated as per the lunar based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know about the exact Islamic date today or chand ...

Here is a list of festivals, events and auspicious timings. Click on the links below to know more about each festival/event and get information about when, why and how these are celebrated.

Off northwestern Amami-Oshima Island / 10 km / M 5.2 ...