The Obon Festival will take place on Friday, August 16 at 6 p.m. People will be able to release lanterns to commemorate their ...

August kicks off with the AAA & CCC 15th Annual Soul Food Festival and the Stockton Buddhist Temple annual Obon Odori & Festival both on the same day — Saturday, Aug. 3. Here are 15 things to do ...

The Obon is a Buddhist ritual to celebrate and honor the ancestors. The festival has become an island tradition enjoyed by many different ethnic groups. The Obon is a Buddhist ritual to celebrate ...

Makawao Hongwanji Mission is holding the second day of its Obon festival Saturday, with the food concession opening at 5:30 p.m., Hatsubon First Bon Memorial religious service at 6 p.m. and dance ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

Today is the last of the four-day Obon festival honoring ancestral spirits. Kanematsu gathered papery bright orange-colored bell-shaped husks to display for the occasion. Peggy Pilkey recalled ...

Citing "business conditions," Daikin America's Alabama plant has canceled this year's Daikin Festival in Decatur. The Japan-based company, which has a plant in Decatur, made the announcement Friday ...

For more than 700 years, the residents of Nishimonai in Akita Prefecture have welcomed their ancestral spirits home for the annual Obon festival through a Bon Odori.These dances are held across ...

The Nankishirahama Tourism Association in Wakayama Prefecture was scheduled to hold an annual fireworks festival on Aug. 10, where thousands of fireworks would be shot over the Shirarahama Beach.