Festivalgoers immerse in Japanese culture

July 12, 2016 | 09:28

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The event ‘Feel Japan 2016’ simulating a traditional Japanese summer festival is expected to draw thousands of guests on July 16-17 to the Gem Centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

At the event, guests can partake in eating traditional Japanese food, play games and watch Japanese students' dancing performances as well as meet the cartoon characters Hello Kitty and Ninja fencer.

A large number of special guests will also make presentations on the history of Japan and present information about Japanese clothes, housing, food and how summer festivals are celebrated in the Far Eastern nation.

They will also teach guest to speak some common phrases in Japanese and demonstrate the techniques of bowing and show how Japanese men and women bow differently.

Those who attend the event will have the opportunity to visit some 50 food game and cultural booths in the summer festival booths area and eat Japanese vegetable pancakes, noodles, skewered chicken, candy apples and chocolate-coated bananas as well as partake in traditional refreshments.

Other activities will include calligraphy and origami demonstration as well as trial-fitting for traditional Japanese clothes.

Dancers will perform two different types of traditional Japanese dances - Soranbushi and Bonodori, which are dramatically different from any dances popular in Vietnam, said the organizing committee members.

The popular Japanese music band 365, singer Chi Thien and Bao An are also scheduled to perform their magic at the event, said the organizers, and they encourage anyone with an interest in Japanese or Asian culture to attend.

Lastly, a special drawing will find some lucky guest winning an all-expense paid trip to Mombetsu – a paradise in the north of Japan, they noted.

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