The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of Japan’s largest winter events and attracts around 2 million visitors a year.
SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL 2011
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Olympic Skier: Akira Sasaki
Akira Sasaki, born 26.09.1981, is an Alpine Skier for the Japanese Olympic team. He represented Japan in the 2002 & 2006 Winter Olympics and he’s participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as well. Sasaki satisfied the SAJ’s qualification benchmark of a top-15 finish on the World Cup tour this season by coming 15th in Zagreb in early January.
Tokyo Summer Matsuri
Walking home I heard a ruckus coming from the park on my block. I took a stroll down there to check it out and I rolled up on a little Matsuri. Continue reading
Colombian Independence Day Festival in Tokyo
The Colombian Independence Day Festival was held on Sunday, July 19th at Hibiya Park in Tokyo. Continue reading
Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival)
A hadaka matsuri hadakamatsuri (裸祭り, hadakamatsuri) (literally naked festival) is a type of Japanese festival, or matsuri, where participants wear a minimum amount of clothing; usually just a Japanese loincloth (called fundoshi), sometimes with a short happi coat, and very rarely completely naked.
Whatever the clothing, it is considered to be above vulgar, or everyday, undergarments, and on the level of holy Japanese shrine attire. Naked festivals are held in dozens of places throughout Japan every year, usually in the summer or winter.