This article highlights Japan's top winter festival, where you can immerse yourself in stunning ice attractions and plenty of ...

Of Japan’s many over-the-top illumination events ... park’s Minami Naikaku (South Inner Enclosure) where about 6,000 lanterns illuminate the grounds. Visitors who want to take in the full ...

People in Japan are marking the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that claimed the lives of more than ...

Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary ...

A Japanese tourist attacked a policeman who ordered him to stop releasing a lantern during New Year celebrations in Thailand. The holidaymaker Tomohiro Hirano, 31, was trying to release the red ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...