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Dance with demons in Kyoto at this Edo-period Japanese Halloween festival

• Elliot Hale
  Jul 25, 2026
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Turning a samurai film set into a monster dance party with J-pop choreography.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • culture • dance • demons • Eigamura • Kaikai Yokai Festival • Kyoto • parade • scary • Terupop • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel • Uzumasa Kyoto Village • yokai)

Kunchi: The major Japanese festival most Japanese people don’t know about

• Master Blaster
  Oct 20, 2025

Dance Towns & Dragons.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • dance • dragons • events • festivals • Kunchi • mikoshi • Nagasaki • Nagasaki City • Nagasaki Prefecture • Niwasaki Mawari • Okunchi • SNJO • Suwa Shrine • torimono)

Bruno Mars creates commercial for Japan’s Don Quijote discount retail chain【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 24, 2024

The “Kawaii King” releases a catchy new bop for Japan’s craziest souvenir store. 

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• Japan
• (ads • Bruno Mars • COK • commercials • cool • dance • dancers • dancing • Don Quijote • Donki • Japanese commercial • marketing • music • music video • Shibuya • shops • SNJO • videos)

The Dancing Japanese Hairdresser: Keeping rockabilly alive with unique “dancing haircuts”

• Oona McGee
  Aug 8, 2024

The most entertaining haircut you’ll ever have.

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• Japan
• (barber • COK • cool • dance • dancing • dancing haircut • Dancing Hairdresser • fun • funny • haircut • hairstyling • Hiroshima • Japanese hairstyles • Masanuki Sunakoma • Rockabilly • SNJO • weird)

Tokyo Koenji Awaodori festival will fully take place for the first time in four years this August

• Krista Rogers
  May 18, 2023

The energetic, dance-filled festival will make its grand outdoor return to the streets of Tokyo for the first time since before the pandemic.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (awaodori • COK • culture • dance • festival • Koenji • summer • Taiwan • Tokyo • Tokyo Koenji Awaodori • traditional)

Kagoshima City releases catchy promotional video with weird dancing, bushy eyebrows, no pants

• Dale Roll
  Jan 12, 2023

You may not have ever thought about visiting Kagoshima City before, but we bet you will after seeing this video!

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• Japan
• (cool • dance • funny • Japan travel • Kagoshima • Kagoshima City • travel • video)

Mother and son duo dancing beneath the sakura trees will bring a smile to your day

• Oona McGee
  Apr 12, 2022

Viral video from Japan proves you’re never too old to pop and lock. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cute • dance • dancing • family • hanami • heartwarming • mother and son • mothers • sakura • twitter • videos • viral video)

Pikachus perform classical Japanese dance routine for Japan’s most famous cherry blossom song【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2022

With sakura in bloom, a trio of dancing Pokémon give us a moment of beauty, something to smile about, and a Japanese language lesson.

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• Japan
• (anime • cherry blossoms • cute • dance • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • music • Pikachu • Pokemon • sakura • Sakura Sakura • video • video games)

Real Buddhist monk shows off hot (and sweet) EDM dance moves in Mount Koya video

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 3, 2022

To make matters stranger, the video is part of a promotional tie-in with a popular candy company designed to cheer on a certain group of students.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • cool • culture • dance • EDM • entrance exams • good luck • Koyasan • monks • Morinaga • music • Ramune • temples • video • Wakayama)

Dance the decades away with Travis Japan on their newly dedicated YouTube channel

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 1, 2021

The Johnnys’ Jr. group also feeds our love for nostalgic and classic J-Pop.

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• Japan
• (dance • decades • Johnny's • Johnnys’ Jr. • nostalgia • retro • Travis Japan)

New socially distant stage in Aichi lets you watch dance in an unusual way: through a peephole!

• Dale Roll
  Feb 4, 2021

The view becomes another part of the art, and could also keep you safe!

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• Japan
• (art • coronavirus • dance • performance art • social distancing • stage • theater)

Anime song dance performance group Real Akiba Boys: combining the otaku life with street dancing

• Dale Roll
  Jan 21, 2021

Anime music and breakdancing? Sign us up!

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime music • anime songs • break dancing • concert • dance • dance troop • live performance • otaku • Real Akiba Boys • vocaloids)

Japanese kitty singalong is the purr-fect pick-me-up【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Nov 18, 2019

Let’s all learn to sing and dance the Bento Box Song with this cute little cat!

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• Japan
• (adorable • bento box • cats • cats of Twitter • cute • dance • Mantaro)

Is the dance in this season’s most popular anime ending copied from a three-year-old video?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 24, 2019

Choreographer heard the dance moves in Stars Align looked like his, posts side-by-side comparison.

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• Japan
• (anime • dance • plagerism • Stars Align • video)

Silent Bon odori dance?! Japan’s traditional summer festival gets a modern twist

• Dale Roll
  Aug 15, 2019

The lively dance becomes a silent dance to appeal to younger audiences.

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• Japan
• (bon dance • bon-odori • culture • dance • festivals • Japanese festivals • modernization • Obon • silent dance • tradition • video)

Japanese Pirates of Caribbean fan skips Jack Sparrow costume in picture-perfect recreation【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 26, 2019

We’re not sure if this counts as cosplay, but it looks exactly like the Disney pirate tale.

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• Japan
• (awesome • crazy • dance • Dinsey • Disneyland • funny • Pirates of the Caribbean • robots • video • weird)

Japanese man proposes to girlfriend with huge flash mob in a shopping mall 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  May 6, 2019

The very public display of affection brings shocked girlfriend to tears.

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• Australia, Japan
• (Australia • Brisbane • dance • dancers • engagement • flash mob • love • marriage • proposal • romance • weddings)

Quite possibly the otaku-ist dance that any otaku has ever danced【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 3, 2019

Hyper-energetic superfan leaps into dance troupe’s recreation of one of anime’s most popular opening themes.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • dance • funny • Heisei • Lucky Star • otaku • video • weird)

Costume-less Chinese lion dance videos show real humans, real behind-the-scenes magic【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  Apr 30, 2019

Effortlessly twirling and leaping, these acrobats are amazing… even outside of their costumes!

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• China
• (acrobat • amazing • Chinese New Year • cool • dance • lion dance • performance • somersault • training • video)

Tomioka High Dance Club’s accomplishments grow as they dance in a classic ’90s-style commercial

• Dale Roll
  Mar 31, 2019

These girls are climbing sky-high in their careers, and they haven’t even graduated yet!

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• Japan
• (ad • commercial • cool • dance • So-net • Takefuji Dance • Tomioka High School Dance Club • video)

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