The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the scores of revelers, as well as the live festival music and clacking geta wooden clogs. For more than 400 years ...

Japan's longest dance festival, the month-long Gujo Odori in Gujo City, Gifu, is back to full strength for the first time since the start of the pandemic. For this year's event, organizers have ...

Hisaya Yanagita, 54, of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, was 30 years old when he first came across the traditional "Gujo Odori" dance festival while visiting the Okumino region of Gifu Prefecture ...

Along with Gujo Odori in Gifu Prefecture and Awa Odori in Tokushima Prefecture, Nishimonai Bon Odori is one of the "Furyu-odori" dances in various parts of Japan that UNESCO decided to register on ...