SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- This weekend is expected to be a busy one for San Jose's Japantown. The popular Obon Festival returns to its in-person roots on Saturday and Sunday. "Obon" is a Japanese ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The annual Obon Festival in San Jose's Japantown is once again coming together this weekend where the popular San Jose Taiko will be celebrating their 50th Anniversary.

Obon — a Japanese Buddhist festival that honors the dead — is one of the city’s longest-running cultural events, dating back certainly to the post-World War II period and probably back to the 1930s.

Hundreds of community members participate in the traditional Odori dancing on the first day of the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin’s Obon festival in San Jose on Saturday. The Obon festival is an ...

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 ...

Japantown celebrates the San Jose Obon festival, a time when generations of families and friends come together and enjoy a rich cultural experience in one of the three remaining Japantowns in the ...

SAN JOSE — On the 80th anniversary of the Obon festival in one of the last Japantowns left in America, 20,000 people showed up over the weekend. They happily devoured 35,000 teriyaki beef skewers, ...

SAN JOSE — The shopping list for the San Jose Obon Festival includes 7,800 chicken quarters, 1,476 pounds of potstickers, 30 pounds of carrots, a crate of celery and 750 pounds of rice. How else would ...

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 ...

On Saturday, July 9th 12:00-10:00 PM and Sunday, July 10th from 12:00-8:00 PM the San Jose Obon Festival takes place in Japantown – the largest festival in one of the three remaining Japantowns in the ...

San Jose Obon Festival, a time when generations of families and friends come together and enjoy a rich cultural experience in one of the three remaining Japantowns in the United States. There are ...