“You can find Japanese grocery stores; that was impossible 30 years ago.” The annual Akimatsuri Fall Festival, which Dirbashi ...

Vendor Maiko Yamazaki came to the 15th annual Aki Maturi Festival in Henderson on Saturday, hoping to sell some of her wares, ...

17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering ... included wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Visits by Japanese leaders to the controversial shrine trigger ...

Osaka’s “danjiri matsuri,” or float festivals, are considered one of the most dangerous events on Japan’s festival calendar.

“Danjiri sometimes fall over or collide ... s work is waning as the number of festival participants declines. With record-low birth rates across Japan, the country’s population is shrinking.