Get this: a compact, walkable area around Tokyo’s Sumida River is the site of both the city’s oldest temple, Sensoji, and its newest technological marvel, the 634-metre Tokyo Skytree. And as if that ...

Tokyo's biggest fireworks display is returning this summer on Saturday July 26. The Sumida River Fireworks Festival is also Japan's oldest fireworks event, dating back to 1733, when it was staged as ...

Japan isn't a difficult place to live. If you want to eat Mexican food, there are Mexican restaurants. If you want to buy brand-name British clothes, there are shops and websites that deliver. So ...

One of Tokyo’s most popular fireworks festivals will return in a blaze of glory this summer for the first time in four years following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. “We will do our best to ...

On the evening of July 29, Tokyo held its famous annual Sumida River Fireworks Festival. The festival was postponed for one day due to Typhoon Jongdari, which swept by the city the day before. Some 20 ...

I was five years old when World War II ended. I remember seeing a flat, charred Tokyo landscape with not a building left standing. There were also, however, great expanses of blue sky and nothing to ...

Breathtaking fireworks are synonymous with summer in Japan, but the Sumida River fireworks festival on July 27 is the biggest, most spectacular of them all. This stunning pyrotechnic display of ...

The 2019 edition of Sumida River Fireworks Festival is seen in Tokyo on July 27, 2019. (Mainichi/Masahiro Ogawa) TOKYO -- The Sumida River Fireworks Festival, one of the Japanese capital's biggest ...

The annual Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo, one of the biggest summer events in the country, has been canceled for the third year in a row due to the coronavirus. The fireworks display is ...

Fireworks are a magnificent enough spectacle from the ground, but looking down on them from Japan's tallest building is simply breathtaking. About 1,000 lucky visitors to the Tokyo Skytree Saturday ...

About 20 years ago, a couple of friends told me they had found a Chinese pottery piece that had been thrown away and — knowing that I collected Asian objects — they asked me if I wanted it. I said yes ...