Japan's Hina Matsuri festival, celebrated every spring in hopes of girls' healthy growth, typically features displays of ...

March 3 marks the annual festival called "Hinamatsuri," or Girls' Day, in Japan ... along the Sea of Japan, was once a castle town. Currently, it is showcasing "hina" dolls in traditional ...

Changes are now being seen in centuries-old gender-based traditions concerning children in Japan ... Girls’ Day is now more commonly known as Hinamatsuri, a day when parents display “hina ...

as part of the Katsuura Big Doll Festival, to celebrate Hina Matsuri. Each year on March 3, Hina Matsuri (雛祭り) is celebrated to pray for young girls’ growth and happiness. Families with daughters ...

NAGOYA--Around 10,000 stately hanging “hina” dolls delight tourists from Japan and abroad at ... runs until March 3, the day of “Hinamatsuri” or “Girls’ Day,” a celebration featuring ...

The display will continue until March 4. Note: Japanese hina dolls are ornaments for Girls' Day on March 3. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...

Hina dolls, which represent the emperor, empress and the imperial court, are presented to girls on the first March 3, Girl's Day celebration after they are born.