A Bon Odori dance event aimed at breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of participants was held in the ...

Visitors were shown how to wear summer kimono called yukata. They also enjoyed traditional Japanese culture, such as the tea ceremony and flower arrangement. Japanese and South Korean singers and ...

NARA -- This western Japan city has seen increasing numbers of inbound visitors strolling around tourist spots wearing kimonos and their summer counterpart, yukata. Westerners in particular appear ...

This new summer record, an average temperature of 62.2 degrees F (16.8 degrees C), beats out last summer’s extraordinarily high average by a narrow 0.05 degree F (0.03 degree C). Both constitute ...

Supported by By Steven Kurutz Photographs by Sophie Park In addition to reporting from a beach on Cape Cod, Steven Kurutz interviewed fans of summer by phone. The vacationers were gone.

When I was younger, I sometimes imagined how it felt to be among them. This Spring semester, the ICC at Waseda University announced a Japanese cultural event to wear summer kimono (yukata) and learn a ...

We hate to break it to you, but summer is nearly over. Ideally, you've spent the last few months blasting good tunes by the pool or beach while working on your tan, or maybe with your windows ...

By Lindsay Zoladz A few weeks ago, I asked you to share your 2024 song of the summer. Not necessarily your favorite of the pop smashes that defined the balmiest months of this year — because I ...

In the spring of 1985, a couple of months before I graduated from Grade 11, I applied for a summer job at Chi-Chi’s, a Mexican-style restaurant and bar that was opening an outlet not far from my ...

As floodwaters coursed through Texas and Taiwan, as mosquito-borne viruses spread across the Americas, as lethal heat struck down children on hikes and grandparents on pilgrimage, the world’s ...

Yes, it means we’re moving into Demure Autumn or even PSL Time, but it also indicates seasons themselves are getting warped by meme culture. More than that, though, I’d say this all has ...

Tourists have seen temperatures soar in Crete this summer, with Greece experiencing its hottest June and July on record Summer 2024 was the Earth's warmest on record, according to the Copernicus ...