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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 ...

This weekend marked the return of the annual Obon Festival in Anaheim since the COVID-19 pandemic. Obon is a time for Buddhists to remember ancestors who have died and celebrate the Buddha Dharma, or ...

The summer obon festivities have been canceled this year by island temples due to the coronavirus pandemic. Temples like Wailuku Hongwanji, shown here during bon dancing, will be taking a financial ...

SAN JOSE — The shopping list for the San Jose Obon Festival includes 7,800 chicken quarters, 1,476 pounds of potstickers, 30 pounds of carrots, a crate of celery and 750 pounds of rice. How else would ...

As part of the celebration to honor the spirit of one’s ancestors, the Obon Festival at the Vista Buddhist Temple this weekend will include two days of food, drumming, seminars on Buddhism, cultural ...

Hundreds of community members participate in the traditional Odori dancing on the first day of the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin’s Obon festival in San Jose on Saturday. The Obon festival is an ...

A new month means a new list of summer events happening in San Joaquin County. August kicks off with the AAA & CCC 15th Annual Soul Food Festival and the Stockton Buddhist Temple annual Obon Odori & ...

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 ...

OBON Sushi + Bar + Ramen debuted in Tucson only about three years ago, but its ascension into the canon of modern downtown Tucson restaurants and bars has been impressively swift. It’s hard now to ...

Fumie Satake wouldn’t dream of missing an Obon festival, the annual Buddhist event to honor the spirits of those who have passed on. Satake, 86, of Mountain View, happily waited in line Saturday for a ...