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The Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University hosted their 25th Sakura Matsuri: Cherry Blossom Festival.

"Gal Mikoshi" organizing committee chairperson Takanobu Miura is pictured in Osaka's Kita Ward on April 3, 2025. (Mainichi/Tatsuya Naganuma) OSAKA -- Osaka's beloved "Gal Mikoshi" (Gal portable ...

The 2025 Cherry Blossom grand marshals also included Hibakusha, a term referring to survivors of the atomic bombings of ...

A two-and-a-half-hour Shinkansen ride from Tokyo’s glittering skyline lies Osaka. Japan’s second-largest ... under a canopy of these unpredictable blossoms. Almost all the world’s matcha ...

The annual Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Festival in Burlington returns this ... of the city's twinning agreement with Itabashi, Japan. Hosted by the Burlington Mundialization Committee, the free ...

A man was admitted to the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan with a ticket to a 1940 event that was called off as war escalated, organizers said. Tickets for the "Grand International Exposition of Japan" in ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running through the Taiyujicho district of Osaka’s Kita Ward. Masafumi ...

OSAKA--The grounds of the Japan Mint in Osaka’s Kita Ward opened to the public on April 5 in an annual event to show off the hundreds of flowering cherry blossom trees. But a lucky 1,900 or so ...

Osaka's beloved "Gal Mikoshi" (Gal portable shrine procession) summer tradition will make an early appearance this year at a ...