NAGASAKI -- The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, a dazzling winter tradition here, began on Jan. 29, illuminating this southwest Japan city with around 15,0･･･ ...

NAGASAKI--For the first time in four years, the warm glow of an iconic winter celebration will finally fully return to the streets here, featuring 15,000 colorful lanterns.

Recent diplomatic squabbles between Japan and China have dampened enthusiasm around many bilateral events, but it seems nothing can dull the glow of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival, which will be ...

NAGASAKI--Around 15,000 colorful lanterns have bathed the city of Nagasaki in dazzling color and light as the 30th Nagasaki Lantern Festival kicked off on Jan. 29.

Soon, the streets of Nagasaki City will be lit up by over 15,000 Chinese lanterns to mark the Chinese New Year. In an interesting counterpoint to the almost daily news of increasing tensions between ...

NAGASAKI -- The annual Nagasaki Lantern Festival began here on Feb. 5 with some 15,000 lanterns brightening up the city in western Japan to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Nagasaki was the only port in Japan opened for foreign trade during the national isolation of the Edo shogunate (1600-1867). The island of Dejima, constructed in Nagasaki Bay, was provided as a ...

Enjoy the Chinese New Year celebration in style at the Nagasaki Lantern Festival 2014, which kicks off on Jan. 31 and runs for two weeks in the city's Chinatown and surrounding areas.

NAGASAKI -- The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, a dazzling winter tradition here, began on Jan. 29, illuminating this southwest Japan city with around 15,0 ...

Later, the festival came to be a part of the city’s annual calendar, and, in 1994, was officially adopted by the Japanese residents of Nagasaki as the Nagasaki Lantern Festival. The festival runs for ...