People pay tribute to martyrs in Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province, April 2, 2025. People across the country attend ...

Local governments in the targeted areas are hurriedly taking emergency measures as are many recreational facilities including beaches and festivals. Following the earthquake, the Japan ...

For Malaysian Chinese Goh Ee Xuan, Qingming Festival has always pulsed with ancestral echoes and meant honoring ancestors through time-honored rituals like burning incense and offering symbolic paper ...

From Mexico's Day of the Dead, brought to life by the 2017 Academy Award-winning animated film Coco, to the Obon Festival in Japan, cultures worldwide have their own takes on ancestral worship.

The technical term for the event is “coupling,” but it’s known colloquially as the “Shinkansen kiss.” For Japanese rail fans, it’s a big deal. For foreigners, it is a unique insight into the ...

While the traditional festival is paused, the town is considering alternatives such as dispersing launch sites and shortening the event duration to scale down the festivities. (Japanese original ...

Every year at the Fuji Shibazakura Festival, a beautiful carpet of bright pink flowers rolls out beneath Japan’s tallest and ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

In 1913, Tohoku became the first university in Japan to admit female students. Tohoku University was also the first in Japan to admit international students. In 2009, Tohoku was one of 13 universities ...

The popular K-pop festival announced the first batch of performing artists for the upcoming KCON Japan 2025 event in Chiba, taking place this May at the Makuhari Messe. The first line-up features ...

A festival celebrating young traditional musicians and dancers the north of the Isle of Man has begun. Shennaghys Jiu, which is Manx Gaelic for traditions today, the festival is an annual event ...