In an Aloha shirt and khakis, Ken Yamada doesn't exactly look like a Buddhist minister. But put the boyish 47-year-old reverend of Berkeley's Higashi Honganji in a roomful of folk-dancing parishioners ...

Misaki Suzuki sat next to a bouquet of flowers honoring those families of the Fukushima area of Japan during the Imin Yosebaka Obon Service on Saturday at the Makiki Cemetery. Suzuki is in Honolulu as ...

The Japanese Summer Obon Festivals are beginning to take place around the Bay Area. These events provide a cultural experience where family and friends come together to commemorate one’s ancestors ...

As members of the Vista Buddhist Temple prepared this week forthe traditional JapaneseObonfestival held every summer,organizers said visitors can expect cultural ceremonies combinedwith spiritual ...

Nearly every Japanese American community is celebrating with Obon festivals this time of year, but nowhere does this summertime Buddhist ritual resonate more deeply than in San Francisco. "We are the ...

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday commemorating the dead and honoring ancestors. In Japan, Obon, an ...

Japanese festival Obon is celebrated from today, Saturday August 13. The annual Buddhist festival is celebrated throughout the country of Japan. The national holiday is used to celebrate the ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 7/18/2012, pg. 2A) A story about San Jose’s Obon Festival incorrectly reported that Phyllis Sugimoto is a grandmother. She is not. The story also incorrectly ...

Japanese flags were given to soldiers during World War II. Those in Mount Pleasant’s Patriots Point Maritime Museum ...

The Vista Buddhist Temple and Japanese-American Cultural Centerwill host its annual Obon festival from noon to 8 p.m. July 29 and30 at 150 Cedar Road, Vista. Obon is a Japanese Buddhist holiday that ...