Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...

Lahaina Jodo Mission will celebrate its first public Obon Festival since the pandemic on July 1. The Obon service will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a floating lanterns procession and ceremony ...

The 21st annual Maui Matsuri will return to the University of ... together and please stay for the finale — a Community Obon Dance! Dust off your happi coats for the first obon dance of the ...