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.

When it comes to the festive summer Japanese folk dances of Bon Odori, performed during the Japanese Buddhist celebration of Obon which honors both life and death, Martin Shimizu of Cotati used to ...

If you spend your life stuck in one of Japan's concrete jungles, you may have never seen a Bon-odori (Bon-dance) performed at the summer Bon festivals held all over the country in towns and villages, ...

For many people, Bon odori dance festivals are an annual summer tradition where the locals get together and dance to traditional music. But Yukiko Nakanishi has become a common fixture among the local ...

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 ...

Taiko drums drowned out a jackhammer Sunday afternoon at the Bon Odori festival in South Seattle. The annual event, now in its 77th year, closed down a block of 14th Avenue South outside the Seattle ...

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 ...