"The main purpose ... is to promote agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley, predominantly grapes," Mark Armstrong, CEO of the ...

Each chef was judged on three categories — taste, creativity, and presentation/visual appeal — and Chef Anthony Dromgoole of OBON came out on top ... Chef Anthony Dromgoole and Chef Ken Foy (Photos by ...

The incident occurred at around 4:25 a.m. on September 9, 2004, when a fire broke out at the home. The bodies of Toshiyo, ...

Tsuru for Solidarity organized the first-ever Liberation Obon outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in. (Obon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rice shelves in some stores emptied or stocks were rationed after a government warning this month -- since lifted -- of a possible "megaquake", as well as several typhoons and the annual Obon holiday.

He was planning to visit his parents’ home in Tannan (present-day Tamba-Sasayama) in Hyogo Prefecture for the first “obon” following his mother’s death. However, in early August ...

Rice shelves in some stores emptied or stocks were rationed after a government warning this month — since lifted — of a possible "megaquake", as well as several typhoons and the annual Obon ...

Rice shelves in some stores emptied or stocks were rationed after a government warning this month -- since lifted -- of a possible "megaquake", as well as several typhoons and the annual Obon holiday.