Summer weekends at SoCal Japanese Buddhist temples fill with carnival games, Japanese food and dancing as people of all ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

After being heated, it gets pounded at least fifty times. All for the upcoming Obon and Taiko Festival. That's the work being ...

Makawao Hongwanji Mission is holding the second day of its Obon festival Saturday, with the food concession opening at 5:30 p.m., Hatsubon First Bon Memorial religious service at 6 p.m. and dance ...

Lahaina Jodo Mission will celebrate its first public Obon Festival since the pandemic on July 1. The Obon service will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a floating lanterns procession and ceremony ...

Bon holiday travel will be disrupted due to precautionary measures being taken by rail companies following a government warning after a major earthquake struck off Miyazaki Prefecture on Aug. 8.

The threat of a “megaquake”, a series of typhoons, and a week-long national holiday have some Japanese scrambling to buy rice – the nation’s cherished staple food – with the government ...

Now their descendants are preparing for Obon, the Japanese festival of the dead, to mark the economic and social contribution of what was once Australia’s largest Japanese community. Siblings ...

Japan’s summer Bon holiday exodus is in full swing as people rush to their hometowns and vacation destinations, but with a heightened sense of caution this year following warnings a megaquake ...

For more than 700 years, the residents of Nishimonai in Akita Prefecture have welcomed their ancestral spirits home for the annual Obon festival through a Bon Odori.These dances are held across ...