To wipe the slate clean and get ready for 2008, sign up to take a swing at a giant temple bell Sunday at the Asian Art Museum's Japanese New Year Bell ... in hands-on art activities in the ...

Known as Oshogatsu, the Japanese New Year is among the most culturally ... because it’s free and because there are many different activities for people of all ages and interests, it’s a ...

After watching a riveting Japanese taiko drum performance ... welcome the New Year with exciting and traditional activities like New Year's calligraphy (kakizome), lion dancing (shishimai ...

The Wallens usually celebrate Japanese New Year with ozoni, a Japanese soup featuring rice cakes (mochi) and vegetables.

As we make our way through December, our remaining days quickly get booked with surviving bounenkai (end-of-year parties), reserving fukubukuro (lucky bags) and more activities that ... significance ...

(KATU) — The Portland Japanese Garden celebrated the new year Sunday with their O-Shogatsu ... The O-Shogatsu Festival offered family friendly activities and performances such as Japanese ...

Ozoni is standard New Year’s Day fare for many Japanese Americans, whether they are nisei, the children of Japanese immigrants, or yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese Americans. Starting in the ...

Shogatsu, the term for the New Year's holidays in Japanese, is a time when people take the first three days of the New Year off to relax with their families and engage in traditional activities to ...