The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, a dazzling winter tradition here, began on Jan. 29, illuminating this southwest Japan city ...

Nagasaki, located on the northwest coast of Kyushu, is known for its history with the atomic bomb. But this beautiful ...

Meet the mistress of Nara’s last geisha house — a remarkable woman who’s on a mission to keep this complex tradition alive in her ancient city, a former capital of Japan.

Lanterns representing a brighter future for Japan were released into the night sky to mark the six-month anniversary of the earthquake. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Of Japan’s many over-the-top illumination events ... park’s Minami Naikaku (South Inner Enclosure) where about 6,000 lanterns illuminate the grounds. Visitors who want to take in the full ...

Stefanie Jones, who plays Mary Poppins, and Jack Chambers, who plays Bert, pose for photographs on Calton Hill, to mark the arrival of Mary Poppins to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

The Japanese hacker group [Hackerfarm], founded by Hackaday friend [Akiba], is looking to help by sending some of their solar lanterns to provide off-grid light. They’ve already shipped one ...