The parade’s organizer, the Gion Festival Yamahoko Association, based in Kyoto’s Nakagyo Ward, made the decision on April 20 at a meeting with 34 local float-preservation associations.

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district.

King Kekaulike High School students were revealed on Friday as the winners of the 29th annual Honolulu Festival Maui Mikoshi design contest. Photo courtesy King Kekaulike High School King ...