TOKUSHIMA--Summer here is busy with more than 1 million spectators expected to pack the Awa Odori dance festival, which dates back over 400 years. But the festival from Aug. 12-15 this year is not the ...

Female dancers at Japan's Awa Odori festival are speaking out about illegal filming ahead of this year's event in Tokushima ...

Awa Odori, one of Japan's signature summer dance festivals, opened Tuesday in Tokushima Prefecture, where about 600 perfor ...

A group of dancers greeted visitors at an airport near Tokushima City, western Japan, ahead of Tuesday's opening of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The four-day dance festival "Awa Odori" attracts more than 1.2 million people annually Over a million performers and spectators ...

One of Japan’s most iconic summer folk dance festivals, Awa Odori can be traced back to its origins in Tokushima prefecture more than 400 years ago. This lively celebration has since brought its ...

This captured video shows Japanese phrases using Awa Ningyo Joruri puppets. (Photo courtesy of Tokushima Prefectural International Exchange Association) TOKUSHIMA -- Tokushima Prefectural ...