Monday, August 4, 2008

Japanese Festival Parade

These pictures are from the last years (2007) Misawa Summer festival's parade.  It's neat because they carry these huge floats down the street.  Some of the floats are a bit creepy with the huge fake 'people' but others like the Stitch one are really neat.  Check out the linked site for more information on the parade.  The lady with a cart is selling ice cream.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

American Day Parade

As part of the American day festivities that the base puts on for the Japanese is a parade.  While the Japanese do have parades we add our candy throwing aspect into it, which is something they don't normally do.  It's interesting to watch the costumes that people think represent America like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and of course the Japanese go crazy over anyone in costume!  You should see them at Disney!   Here are a few pics from the parade. 

Good Ole Uncle Sam leading the parade
Harley decked out with American flags
Don't forget the cotton candy! 

 

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Japanese Interesting Parade Event

The Japanese have many festivals and parades especially during the Summer.  We went to a parade and found this to be an interesting section of the parade, that provided a little culture shock for us.  We are enjoying the parade when suddenly around the corner came several naked booty guys wearing weird hats with painted faces, talk about cracking the Americans up:

Japanese guys squatting and waiting to perform an act, it was a 5-10 minute part of the parade that they stopped and did every so often
2 guys acting like they are fighting/wrestling 
This poor American kids got dragged into the action, I can only imagine what he was thinking!
Rear view shot (literally) I have no idea what or who they were supposed to be, we were thinking Sumo but then realized they are way to skinny to be Sumo.  Thankfully it was a warm day so they wouldn't get too chilly!

So I got to field many questions from my kids such as "Why are they wearing diapers?", "How do they walk around like that?", "Why are they walking around like that?" and "Why can we see their booty?"  Gotta love kids ;)  Mr. B had missed the action because he was away at training for a few weeks so I had to take pics, because I wanted him to see what he had missed.  

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