Video fom Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival 2012, which opened on February 6th. Some of the sculptures are not of the highest quality to be frank, but looks like a cool winter event overall. Video by Ozzy78, music by Apefail…
Japanese events
Hadaka Matsuri – Japanese naked festival
The annual Saidai-ji Eyo hadaka matsuri (裸祭り, nudity festival), a ritual said to have originated in the Muromachi Period (1338-1573), was held Saturday night at the Saidai-ji Kannon-in temple in Okayama’s Higashi Ward.
Thousands of men dressed in traditional loincloth packed into the temple grounds and grappled for a pair of shingi (sacred pieces of wood), each measuring about 20cm long, and tossed from the window of the temple’s main altar.
According to local belief, those who manage to get their hands on the wooden amulet and race out of the temple’s precincts will be blessed with good fortune for the rest of the year. Info and video via Asahi.
I’ll rather have bad luck instead of facing the armpit torture, lol?
Kobe Luminarie 2010
Kobe Luminarie is an annual light festival in Kobe, Japan, held every December to commemorate the earthquake in 1995. Video from the 2010 opening event…
The light installation is a Japanese-Italian collaboration, thus resembling European architecture style. The luminarie has became a huge tourist attraction in recent years, with some 129,000 people visited the festival on its opening day.
Tokyo Game Show 2010 cosplay
Photos of cosplayers at the 2010 Tokyo Game Show which was held in Chiba over the weekend. Pics taken by the folks at Tokyofashion blog…
World Cosplay Summit 2010 parade video
Video of the cosplay parade at World Cosplay Summit (WCS) in Nagoya, Japan. Hat tip to Hakuto0505 for the interesting clip. Heaven for cosplay fans lol…
WCS was started in 2003 as a promotion event for Aichi Expo 2005. The event has grown so big over the years that it’s now endorsed by three Japanese ministries.
International Tokyo Toy Show 2010
Video coverage by The Japan Times at the 2010 International Tokyo Toy Show…
