Awa Odori

January 25, 2013
One of Japan's great treats during the long and hot summer, offering plenty of local flavor and color, are the festivities surrounding Bon, when Japanese return to their...

August 13, 2012
TOKUSHIMA--In a scene that would have done Frank Zappa proud, a group of "dancing fools" took to the streets of Tokushima Aug. 12 to kick off Awa Odori, the four-day summer...

June 23, 2012
One of Japan's great treats during the long and hot summer, offering plenty of local flavor and color, are the festivities surrounding Bon, when Japanese return to their...

August 13, 2011
TOKUSHIMA--A traditional Awa Odori folk dance festival opened Aug. 12 in Tokushima featuring a dance troupe from disaster-hit Sendai.
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