Sapporo Snow Festival: How Six High School Sculptures Became Two Million Visitors
On the morning of 6 February 1950, six high school students from Sapporo’s Tōhō school finished six small snow figures […]
Festivals
Matsuri through the year — where to watch, when to go, and the meaning behind the floats.
Kyoto’s 1,150-Year-Old Plague Response
In the summer of 869, a plague was moving through Heian-kyō and nobody knew how to stop it. Fujiwara-era court
The Cormorants Who Work for the Emperor
The Nagara River runs past Gifu Castle at the base of Mount Kinka, and on any summer night between 11
Oda Nobunaga’s Favourite Summer Festival
On the fourth Saturday of July, after dark, in a small Aichi city that most foreign tourists have never heard