The Cherry Blossom Committee and the City of Monterey Park invited visitors to celebrate Japanese heritage over the weekend.

Japan's longest dance festival, the month-long Gujo Odori in Gujo City, Gifu, is back to full strength for the first time since the start of the pandemic. For this year's event, organizers have ...

An “underground” festival now under way traces the history of the modern Japanese dance form of “butoh” against the backdrop of the postwar period of rapid economic growth in Tokyo. The ...

Festival-goers in the western Japan prefecture of Tokushima are enjoying a springtime version of the major summer dance event, the Awa Odori. Tokushima city stages the dance around this time every ...

Lions approached the crowd slowly, moving to the center of the plaza to steady and rhythmic Okinawan beats. Two, three, then ...

The festival procession preservation committee ... She started practicing traditional Japanese dance of the Inoue school when she was 6. After graduating from Notre Dame Jogakuin High School ...