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Festival in Japan

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

3. 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.

4. The Nebuta Festival
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 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.

5. Yamakasa Festival

6. 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.