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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday ...

A celebration that highlights Japanese food and culture is on Sunday at the Buddhist Temple of Salinas. The Obon Festival, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. includes two stages of live entertainment featuring ...

In an Aloha shirt and khakis, Ken Yamada doesn't exactly look like a Buddhist minister. But put the boyish 47-year-old reverend of Berkeley's Higashi Honganji in a roomful of folk-dancing parishioners ...

The 28th annual Las Vegas Obon Festival and Bazaar Aug. 6 at Clark High School celebrated a new home, a record crowd and visions of a bigger event in the future. Hosted by Las Vegas Buddhist Sangha, ...

In an Aloha shirt and khakis, Ken Yamada doesn't exactly look like a Buddhist minister. But put the boyish 47-year-old reverend of Berkeley's Higashi Honganji in a roomful of folk-dancing parishioners ...

The Obon Festival returns to Salt Lake City on Saturday. Lee Oikle, of the Salt Lake Buddhist Taiko group, performs with members of her group and the Ogden Buddhist Taiko group during the Obon ...

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.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) and the OBON Society are poised to return a rare Japanese “good luck” flag to the family of a soldier it was originally gifted to. The ...