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 ...

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. Hawaii’s labor market ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- San Jose's Obon Festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The festival honors loved ones who have passed away, but that's only part of what makes it so special. "The ...

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 ...

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 Biennial Bon Odori Festival this year marked 130 years of Thai-Japanese diplomatic relations, and joined in the celebrations under the action-packed Amazing Thailand Tourism Year 2018 with two ...

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 ...