Mibu no Hana Taue, a rice planting ritual to pray for a good harvest, took place on June 1 in Kita-Hiroshima, Hiroshima ...

Here are 13 summer festivals happening across Japan in 2025 from fireworks and street dances to quiet lantern processions and ...

Japan is famous for its rich cultural heritage and colorful festivals that celebrate the changing seasons. While most of us ...

People from northeastern Japan have jointly showcased their region's traditional summer festivals at the World Expo in Osaka.

Sacred logs were transported to Ise Jingu in central Japan's Mie Prefecture in preparation for a centuries-old ceremony to rebuild the shrine's structures.

Imu seems to have powers that go beyond a traditional Devil Fruit and is connected ... introducing him to the entrancing world of Japanese animation. Since then, he has been a staunch follower ...

Sure, One Piece's Straw Hats will eventually be part of history ... Luffy's birthday happens to fall on Children's Day in Japan, which is almost certainly not a coincidence.

Currently, the workshop produces thousands of hat styles, with an annual output ... including US, Europe, Japan and South Korea. To scale up operations and create jobs, the factory has adopted ...

Currently, the workshop produces thousands of hat styles, with an annual output of 3 million units and a production value of 30 million yuan ($4.1 million). Its products are exported to over 30 ...

Straw hats, once seen as purely utilitarian, are now gaining a new life as fashionable and internationally sought-after products—thanks in part to a centuries-old craft from Shandong province.

The Grammy-winning superstar stunned in a chocolate brown Prada suit and a matching pava (straw) hat emblematic ... where he also wore the traditional pava hat. “We worked on this look for ...

From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these art forms just by checking in. Kurume Kasuri's indigo dyeing process ...