Hundreds of lanterns set for the sky in New Taipei City, Taiwan as part of the Sky Lantern Festival. The festival is held to mark Mid-Autumn. Participants hand-write wishes onto the lanterns ...

From wolfing down too many mooncakes to rounding up your entire family to marvel at the full moon, there are certain traditions without which the Mid-Autumn Festival simply wouldn’t be the same.

People across Japan were treated to a full moon during the mid-autumn festival on Sept. 21 for the first time in eight years. The moon that rises on Aug. 15 on the lunar calendar, equivalent to Sept.