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On Sunday afternoon, Santa Maria was host to the Guadalupe Buddhist Church's annual Obon Festival. The festival is a widely-celebrated tradition honoring Japanese culture and heritage. Locals visited ...

Members of the community gathered, Sunday on the grounds of the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, lighting lanterns, eating food and partaking in Japanese customs in celebration of Obon, a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Centuries of culture and tradition were on display Saturday at San Jose's Obon Festival. Obon is a Japanese Buddhist tradition, dedicated to remembering and honoring the dead ...

Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia is hosting two lantern floating ceremonies in celebration of Obon. (Courtesy of Millie Chen) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- This weekend is expected to be a busy one for San Jose's Japantown. The popular Obon Festival returns to its in-person roots on Saturday and Sunday. "Obon" is a Japanese ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Buddhist Temple is hosting an Obon Japanese Buddhist Festival on Sunday, August 18 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Grant Park. The festival is meant to honor the spirits of a ...

Obon — a Japanese Buddhist festival that honors the dead — is one of the city’s longest-running cultural events, dating back certainly to the post-World War II period and probably back to the 1930s.

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday commemorating the dead and honoring ancestors. In Japan, Obon, an ...