Akron’s Sakura Festival is scheduled to take place at several locations downtown on April 5 from 1-7 p.m. The year’s event ...

YUZAWA, Japan >> The Inukko Matsuri (Yuzawa Inukko Dog Festival), a traditional Lunar New Year festival in which people make ...

Kurdish residents in Japan celebrated the Newroz festival in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on March 23 to welcome spring and ...

Organizers of what has become the largest Japanese cultural festival in North America are once again expecting upwards of 100 ...

The Wallens usually celebrate Japanese New Year with ozoni, a Japanese soup featuring rice cakes (mochi) and vegetables. Wallen said the festival’s traditional dances are a unique draw too ...