but luckily for the scantily clad participants at the Yukake Matsuri festival here, the water was hot. The festival, where local revelers wearing only loincloths splash each other with water ...

Gender experts hail the decision to let women take part in the festival in Inazawa as a step towards equality The 800-year-old Fire Festival in Moriyama is also opening to women's participation for ...

Japanese novelist and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata called the Gion Matsuri one of “the ‘three great festivals’ of the old capital,” along with the Festival of Ages (Jidai Matsuri ...

The 21st annual Maui Matsuri will return to the University of Hawaii Maui College after four years, featuring cultural entertainment, saimin and natto eating contests and keiki activities.

The bustling Sanja Matsuri festival featuring three huge “mikoshi” portable shrines returned in full force to Tokyo’s Asakusa district for the first time since 2019. The hugely popular event ...

The Somin-sai festival was one of three major “naked man” or Hadaka Matsuri festivals held in the country. It took place annually on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year at the Kokusekiji ...

The second edition of the Japanese Hayy Matsuri cultural festival, held under the theme "Saudi Celebrates Japan," was ...

Kitano Tenmangu shrine holds the Zuiki Matsuri festival over 5 days in early October. Sacred palanquins carry the spirit of Sugawara no Michizane, who was a scholar and politician over 1,000 years ...

Shizuka Kashima, a Japanese violinist who flew from Japan to perform for the Matsuri Japan Festival 2019 at Darling Harbour in Sydney Source: SBS Shizuka Kashima, a Japanese violinist and singer ...