The Matsutaki Matsuri (Pine Burning Festival) at Oosaki Hachimangu Shrine in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture is a festival at which new year’s decorations are ritually burned on a large scale. Aerial ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — For the first time in 44 years the Portland Japanese Garden will decorate with winter decorations. The twist is that the decorations are to protect the garden’s trees.

Note: Kadomatsu decorations are made from materials such as pine trees and bamboo, and are displayed outside homes and office buildings. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the ...

CHIBA — Workers at Soshi, a gardening company in Tonosho, Chiba Prefecture, are busy preparing kadomatsu, which are traditional entrance decorations for New Year’s made of cut bamboos, green pine ...