Students at Comsewogue High School in the Comsewogue School District have joined a cross-cultural humanitarian effort to ...

Maui Taiko is heading to the nation’s capital to take center stage at the 2025 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. on Mar. 22.

Maui Taiko. A cherished Maui tradition will soon travel 5,000 miles to the heart of the nation’s capital as Maui Taiko takes ...

He connected with the Obon Society, a nonprofit dedicated to reuniting families with wartime artifacts, and together they traced the flag back to Fumio Kudo, a young Japanese soldier who died at ...

Cherry tree blossom watchers in Salem are hopeful buds will burst into shimmery pink and white petals in time for Saturday’s annual Cherry Blossom Day celebration on the Capitol Mall. Saturday’s free, ...

The festival is modeled after the Japanese Obon festival, where every August, Japanese citizens honor their ancestors, somewhat like the Hispanic Dia de Los Muertos in November. The company started ...

In August last year, shelves in some stores emptied after the government warned of a possible "megaquake", along with one of the fiercest typhoons in decades and the annual Obon holiday.

A video that the nonprofit, Obon Society, posted to YouTube shows an elderly Japanese man, identified in a caption as the brother of a dead soldier, unfolding a flag. He puts his palm on the ...