The extreme summer heat that has struck Japan in recent years due climate change is altering the landscape of annual ...

Hanabi (fireworks) are a feature of summer in Japan. Whether it’s the shelves stocked with fireworks big and small to use at your next barbecue or one of the many firework festivals held during the ...

Summer means fireworks in Japan, and there are plenty of spectacular ... The Kawaguchiko Kojo Matsuri summer festival takes place on Monday August 5 from 7.45pm, with fireworks launched from ...

TOKYO -- Fireworks festivals, which have delighted people across Japan as a summer tradition, are being canceled in an increasing number of cases across the country -- and not just because of ...

Whether through your window, or from a crowded riverbank, watching fireworks ... festival in Okazaki. It's a town near Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture where I lived back in 1998. As you know, Japanese ...

“We will do our best to make sure the Sumida River Fireworks Festival is held safely,” said an organizing committee member of plans to hold the midsummer tradition on the same scale as in ...

SHIMODA, Japan — Parades, fireworks and music livened the normally ... for the 85th annual Black Ship Festival between Friday and Sunday. The event commemorates Commodore Matthew Perry’s ...