TOKYO -- A Bon Odori dance event aimed at breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of participants was held ...

Nishimonai Bon Odori dates back more than 700 years ... Young people who have left for the Kanto region (around Tokyo) and other areas also come back at this time of year, and we would like ...

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 ...

The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the ... It's about three and a half hours from Tokyo to Gujo-Hachiman by Shinkansen to Nagoya with a transfer to local ...

That night inspired Yanagita to become a professional Bon odori researcher. Clad in the de rigueur summer festival attire of "yukata" cotton summer kimono with a "tenugui" hand towel to wipe the ...