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Japanese festival says thank you and goodbye to daruma good-luck dolls…with fire【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2022
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A dramatic send-off at a mountain temple.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • culture • festivals • fire • good luck charms • Gunma • temples.daruma)

Japan’s leading maker of joke knives with retractable blades ends production

• Master Blaster
  Sep 23, 2021

A blow to fans of consequence-free stabbing.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • candy stores • festivals • Horishoten • Magic Mahoto • Nagoya • novelty goods • toys)

Tired of your usual camping fare? Try this easy Japanese festival favorite【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Aug 30, 2021

Or make it at home to bring festival food to you!

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• Japan
• (camping • COK • cooking • festival food • festivals • food • hashimaki • Japanese food • Ken Outdoor Cooking • okonomiyaki • SNJO • SoraKitchen • street food • video)

Japanese idol concert goes ahead during heavy rain, creates crazy scenes for otaku near Mt Fuji

• Oona McGee
  Aug 17, 2021

Mosh pit turns into a pond but that doesn’t stop the singing and dancing.

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• Japan
• (concerts • festivals • Fuji • idol fans • idol groups • Idols • Mt. Fuji • music • otaku • rain • singers • videos • viral videos • Yamanakako • Yamanashi)

Kyoto cotton candy brings us the taste of a traditional Japanese festival

• Oona McGee
  Jul 28, 2021

Specialty sweets maker pops up in Tokyo for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (Arashiyama • COK • confectionery • cotton candy • fairy floss • festivals • food • Japanese festivals • Japanese sweets • Kyoto • Mr. Sato • Shibuya • Shibuya Mark City • SNJO • specialty • sweets • zarame)

Latest design for gorgeous stylized Japanese Coca-Cola cans spotlights Tohoku festivals

• Katy Kelly
  Jun 23, 2021

You’ll want to grab this pretty commemorative Coke can if you’re in northern Japan.

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• Japan
• (Akita • Aomori • Coca-Cola • Coke can • cool • design • festivals • Iwate • Michinoku • packaging • Tohoku • traditional)

Is ramune another COVID-19 casualty? Iconic Japanese soda faces plummeting sales and bleak summer

• Ingrid Tsai
  May 8, 2021

Not the ramune!

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • drinks • festivals • pandemic • Ramune • soda • sweets)

Yakuza leadership airs complaints about COVID-19’s effect on money gains and operations

• Ingrid Tsai
  Mar 1, 2021

Nothing to shed tears over, really.

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • festivals • food stalls • hanami • yakuza)

Mt Fuji Shiba-sakura Festival, where beautiful “lawn sakura” blossom

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2021

A unique hanami event right next to Japan’s most famous mountain.

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• Culture, Japan
• (beautiful • COK • festivals • flowers • Mt. Fuji • nature • places to visit in Japan • sakura • Shibazakura • tourist spots • travel • Yamanashi)

Goodbye katanuki? Japanese festival game may go extinct thanks to the pandemic

• Dale Roll
  Feb 10, 2021

The only makers of katanuki pieces may have to close their doors forever if the pandemic continues much longer.

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• Japan
• (business • coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • festival games • festivals • food • Japanese culture • katanuki • Matsuri • pandemic • tradition)

Mysterious Spirit Boat Procession in Nagasaki and the sandbox tram that follows it【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 8, 2020

A night when mystery hangs thick in the air. 

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• Japan
• (beautiful • bon • culture • festivals • Japanese festivals • Matsuri • Nagasaki • tourism • trains • trams • travel)

We eat imoni, a delicious autumn stew, at a unique version of a traditional Japanese festival

• Katie Pask
  Sep 28, 2020

Celebrating the arrival of autumn with a piping-hot bowl of delicious stew!

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• Japan
• (drive-thru • festival • festivals • food • food festival • food festivals • imoni • imoni-kai • SNJO • soup • Yamagata • Yamagata Prefecture)

Kyoto’s annual giant mountain bonfire displays drastically reduced in 2020

• Master Blaster
  Jul 1, 2020

Gozan no Okuribi organizers strike a balance between tradition and safety.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • Daimoji • festivals • Gozan no Okuribi • Kyoto • Obon • tradition)

Japan has a festival where they straight-up throw dudes into a fire【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2020

Getting married or having a kid? Then into the flames you go!

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• Japan
• (crazy • culture • festivals • fire • religion • video)

Rare Fish Festival in Tokyo serves up dishes so good that oil may leak from your anus!

• Master Blaster
  Dec 7, 2019

It’s sphincter leakin’ good!

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• Japan
• (festivals • fish • food • health • Rare Fish Festival • seafood • Shinagawa • skilfish • Tokyo • warasubo • Yuichiro Wasai)

One of Japan’s favorite traditional desserts almost breaks the spirit of SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 19, 2019

Mr. Sato attempts to eat this traditional Japanese sweet for the first time and realizes that it’s not for novices. Read More

• Japan
• (anzu-ame • COK • festivals • food • Hanazono Shrine • mizu-ame • shinjuku • SNJO • sweets • tori no ichi)

Hyakki Yagyo: Night Parade of 100 Demons scares tourists in Kyoto【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 24, 2019

Japan’s most terrifying ghouls, monsters and demons come out to frighten the public on a street believed to border the spirit world.

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• Japan
• (cosplay • costumes • events • festivals • ghosts • halloween • Hyakki Yagyo • Kyoto • travel • videos • yokai)

Japanese festival float slams full-speed into power pole at Danjiri Matsuri in Osaka 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 23, 2019

Festival-goers sustain injuries, suffer broken bones at one of the most dangerous festivals in Japan.

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• Japan
• (culture • Danjiri • Danjiri Matsuri • festivals • history • Japanese culture • Japanese festival • news • Osaka • tradition)

Niigata brings back mysterious cat mask festival for the first time in almost 90 years

• Oona McGee
  Oct 9, 2019

Geisha once cosplayed as white cats to revive a devastated Japanese town. 

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • culture • festivals • history • Japanese culture • Japanese festival • Niigata • tradition)

Kyoto-roasted coffee has a connection to one of the city oldest, most beautiful summer ceremonies

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 19, 2019

Gozan no Okuribi fire festival inspires new line of gourmet coffee.

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• Japan
• (coffee • cool • culture • drinks • festivals • fire festival • Gozan no Okuribi • Kyoto)

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