YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — For the first time in five years, airmen volunteers from this airlift hub in western Tokyo will shoulder a mikoshi and take part in an annual Japanese festival in one their ...

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district. The ...

Maui High School is the winner of the Honolulu Festival’s 14th annual Maui Mikoshi Design Contest. The students’ winning cultural artwork will be on display before throngs of residents and visitors in ...

The huge Sanja Matsuri festival featuring three portable “mikoshi” shrines returned on May 22 for the first time in three years to crowded streets in Tokyo’s Asakusa district and with some anti-virus ...

The crowds, the clothes, the colors, the communities . . . We take a look at six of the key elements that make the Sanja Matsuri one of Japan’s biggest and most exciting festivals. “I was a young man ...

Japanese festivals occur throughout the year around the country, bringing people and communities together to pray for bountiful harvests, celebrate special holidays, and honor local deities. At the ...