JAPAN TIMES
 
The fifth Japan Parade event to promote Japanese culture was held in Manhattan, New York, on Saturday.
About 100 organizations including companies, schools and groups of Japanese nationals from various prefectures took part in the event. Participants marched through the streets, per...

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ARAB NEWS
 
The end of April and beginning of May is a time when Japanese people can enjoy some free time and relax thanks to a succession of national holidays that, grouped together, are called Golden Week.
April 29 (Showa Day), May 3 (Constitution Memorial Day), May 4 (Greenery Day) and May 5 (...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
A ritual ceremony of carrying timber to Ise Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, was held in the city on Sunday and Monday, in preparation for 2033’s “Shikinen Sengu” — an ancient ritual tradition of completely rebuilding the Shinto shrine complex and transferring the deities to the new sh...

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NHK
 
The Nagasaki Lantern Festival during which the streets of the port city in southwestern Japan are illuminated with approximately 15,000 colorful lanterns got underway on Friday.
Starting this year, the festival began on the first Friday of February instead of coinciding with the start of th...

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NHK
 
The annual Tori-no-ichi festival got underway at Ootori Shrine in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Monday, drawing crowds of business owners and tourists looking to buy a traditional "lucky rake."
The Tori-no-ichi festival dates back to the Edo period, which spanned the 17th to 19th centuries, a...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Six children who will lead one of the yamahoko floats for Kyoto’s Gion Festival visited Yasaka Shrine in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, on Monday to pray that celebrations will go smoothly.
Gion Festival is one of Japan’s most famous festivals. During the grand parade on July 17, many floa...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The third Japan Parade, aimed at promoting Japanese culture, was held in New York City's Manhattan on Saturday.
About 100 groups, including a delegation from the city of Yamaguchi, which was selected for The New York Times' list of "52 places to go in 2024," took part in the event. ...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Model and actress Ai Tominaga became the first woman to play the role of Takeda Shingen in the Shingen-ko Festival, in Kofu on Saturday.
Tominaga led a parade of more than 1,000 “warriors” to commemorate the famous warlord.
The festival’s main event was a reenactment of a confrontati...

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JAPAN TRAVEL
A Sense Of Homecoming
Venue: Shuri Castle When: Oct 28th - Nov 3rd 2022NoticeA significant number of the castle's main buildings were burnt down in October 2019. The site is closed to the public for the time being, but Shurijo Castle Park has been partially reopened since. Authoritie...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
People chat and drink on Saturday at Oktoberfest 2022 in Shiba Park in Tokyo’s Minato Ward.
The autumn event, named after the internationally renowned beer festival in Germany, is being held for the first time in three years.
About 60 brands of German beer, including the popular Hofb...

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