On the first day of Obon, people often visit their hometowns to see their family. They clean ancestral graves and decorate them with flowers and lanterns in order to guide the spirits of their ...

Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people ... They light fireworks and firecrackers at family graves and parade boats ferrying the spirits of the deceased through the streets and then ...

His grave in the regional capital Thursday Island ... Chiomi and Russell ensure they’re not forgotten on Obon, the Japanese day of the dead. Between the 1880s and 1942, 6,000 Japanese divers ...