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Festival in Japan
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Green Day Parade

• Young boy preparing to march in the annual
  Green Day Parade in Yonezawa City.

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The Sapporo Snow Festival

• The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's
  largest winter events, teams from many countries
  gather in Sapporo's Odori Park, the grounds of
  the Self Defense Force Base in Makomanai and the
  main street in Susukino to an array of ice
  sculptures and even ice buildings.

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The Nebuta Festival held in August every year in
Aomori City, Japan attracts 3.5 million
visitors.  It is the largest festival in Japan
The Nebuta Festival

• The festival has been designated nationally as
  an  intangible cultural asset.   It consists 20
  or more large floats with heights of 5 meters
  representing samurai warriors and many smaller
  floats  which parade down the streets of Aomori.
     Dancing is also a major part of the festival.

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Yamakasa Festival
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Children's Day (Tango no Sekku, 5th
of May)

• Originally it was called Boy's Festival and
  was for celebrating boys' growing up, but now it
  has become a day to celebrate children in
  general. On this day, families with boys set out
  dolls for the Boy's Festival, patterned after
  warriors and heroes, and fly carp streamers as
  shown to the right. Carp has the strength to even
  swim up waterfalls and have long been taken as
  symbols of success in life. The day also features
  the practice from long ago of taking a bath with
  flag (a plant), reputed to have medicinal effect,
  and it is also essential to make an offering of
  the traditional Japanese confections of rice
  dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves and rice cakes
  wrapped in oak leaves.