From Japanese New Year traditions to illuminations and exhibitions, these Osaka events are open over the New Year holidays ...

It’s worth getting up early on New Year’s Day, as Hotel Universal Port Vita and its sister property, Hotel Universal Port, ...

May 12 (UPI) --Several Japanese prefectures ravaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 resurrected traditional lion dances on Sunday. The dances involving colorful costumes modeled after lions ...

As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space at the Portland Japanese Garden on Sunday, a crowd squeezed in tight to ...

It’s not just nature, good food and hot springs that attract visitors to the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. The popular resort area is also known for a culture and traditions that have been ...

Visitors to the Arizona Matsuri festival can learn about traditional and modern Japanese dance styles, music, martial arts, food and art. Held at Heritage and Science Park in Phoenix on Feb. 27 and 28 ...

Giant, furry heads buck and roll, and long bodies slither across the floor behind them. Logically, you know that the colorful creatures in front of you aren’t creatures at all. They’re dancers in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new lion dance team is making its debut in Houston this Lunar New Year season. But what's unique about this group is it's made up of 16 Asian American officers from the ...