Holidays & Celebrations

  • A recipe for fun
    October 13th, 2009By Keith Graff
    Weave forty plus tons of rice straw into a rope and make it a little over two city blocks long. Because of its size and to keep it from blocking traffic, you’ll have to divide it into halves. Once everything is in place, go ahead and invite 250,000 or so of your closest friends and » Continue Reading
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  • The Osaka BBQ Guide!
    July 24th, 2009By AETF
    Summer is about one thing – heat. You can choose to fight it, or embrace it like a lover. I’m a lover of everything summer, so when the sun is out, so am I, at the BBQ. Japanese love the grill as much as anybody, so I invite as many friends as I can and » Continue Reading
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  • Seimei, it’s like Obon on Steroids
    April 13th, 2009By Keith Graff
    The people of Okinawa don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter or many of the religious holidays many westerners are familiar with. But they do have plenty of their own special holidays and traditions to speak of. They even have one or two that are not celebrated elsewhere in Japan. One holiday » Continue Reading
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  • The Luck of the Okinawan Irish
    March 17th, 2009By Keith Graff
    Its spring here on Okinawa and everything as far as the eye can see is turning a bright fresh shade of green. That reminded me that St. Paddy’s day is upon us once again. I’m not Irish but having lived in Okinawa these last few years, I couldn’t help but notice » Continue Reading
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  • Girls’ Day is coming up!
    February 27th, 2009By HEJ
    For all of you girls out there, your special day is coming up soon on March 3.  That’s right – Hina Matsuri! Hina Matsuri is said to originally come from an old Chinese tradition of transferring your bad luck to a doll and floating the doll down the river.  In Japan, » Continue Reading
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  • Halloween in February?
    February 12th, 2009By Jamie Rockers
    photo credit: mick62 Most people who come to Japan know about Setsubun, the bean-throwing holiday which comes on the 3rd of February, but most of them do not know about another very special tradition that only happens in Osaka during the same time. Well, if you haven’t already guessed from » Continue Reading
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  • Spring is here!
    February 10th, 2009By mifune
    photo credit: sor “Setsu-bun” according to Wikipedia is the day before the beginning of each season. The name literally means “seasonal division”, but usually the term refers to the spring Setsubun. » Continue Reading
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