This festival provides a unique opportunity to connect with nature and express respect for the vital role the ocean plays in Japanese life. It’s the best Japanese lantern festival to attend for ...

YAMAGA, Kumamoto Prefecture--Hundreds of traditional Japanese umbrellas and thousands of bamboo lanterns are warming the atmosphere of the cold winter nights here. The festival, called “Yamaga ...

The Akita Kanto Festival is ... Cultural Property of Japan. Performers demonstrated a series of techniques to support bamboo poles decorated with dozens of paper lanterns using their foreheads ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

The 2024 Lantern Festival took a new name of Spring Gala, date will be on April 21, please click here for more information https://wmich.edu/asia/spring-gala. The ...

Hundreds of lanterns set for the sky in New Taipei City, Taiwan as part of the Sky Lantern Festival. The festival is held to mark Mid-Autumn. Participants hand-write wishes onto the lanterns ...