An afternoon of traditional Japanese dance, drumming and cultural exchange is planned for Saturday, July 7 on Westport's Jesup Green. The 14th annual Bon Odori Dance Festival, sponsored by the Japan ...

Photos: Bon-Odori Dance Day for Peace in Kingston, N.Y., on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. The Bon-Odori Dance Day for Peace drew a crowd to Kingston Point Beach in Kingston, N.Y., on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.

Dancers flow past the setting sun at a past Bon Odori Festival in downtown Olympia. Tony Overman Olympian file photo Olympia’s Bon Odori — a secular version of the traditional Japanese festival ...

When 91-year-old Helen Yamamoto first started dancing, she was 4 years old. World War I had ended, women were earning the right to vote and TV hadn’t been invented. Eighty-seven years later, Yamamoto ...

The pau-hana time came, the rain clouds that welcomed Friday parted, and the people came to Puhi to enjoy the bon odori experience of food, games and, of course, the bon odori. The Kauai Retired and ...

The Bon-Odori Dance Festival for Peace will take place at a new location this year. The seventh annual event will be held 1-7 p.m., Aug. 6 at Kingston Point Beach Park, on Delaware Avenue in downtown ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Aug. 7, 2019) -- Taking part in a Japanese festival was a bucket-list event for Sgt. Jonathan Paredes, who serendipitously arrived in the country just a few weeks before the 60th ...

The traditional Obon Odori festival celebrates Japanese folk dance, held on the grounds of the Enmanji Buddhist Temple. Obon, the Japanese Buddhist summer festival honoring the ancestors, continues on ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (July 30, 2021) – Two women who have spent a combined five-plus decades teaching a centuries-old touchstone of Japanese culture to Camp Zama residents were recognized earlier this ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Joshua Ryu, of New Jersey, tries his hand at breaking a watermelon with a stick blindfolded in a ...

An afternoon of traditional Japanese dance, drumming and cultural exchange is planned for Saturday, July 7 on Westport's Jesup Green. The 14th annual Bon Odori Dance Festival, sponsored by the Japan ...