What do you know about the Pink Penis Festival in Japan?
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Err, being as it IS a Shinto festival, why would devout families disapprove of it? All religions are not uptight and disapproving of stuff like Christianity is. The festival is a normal thing. Shinto priests are the ones organizing it.\nIf any priests disapprove of anything, I`m sure it`s the huge number of non-Japanese that flood the place JUST for the festival - and snigger at everything penis shaped.\nIt`s a fertility festival. Get over it people.
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Japan. (In general, all the ones I've met) Theyre workaholics, total success nazis, they think theyre better than everyone else. Plus the men like...repress their sexuality until they end up raping a schoolgirl or inventing such weird things as bukk ake(Apparently yahoo doesnt like that word)...Japan has got to be the weirdest country on earth...\n\n\npeace
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http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp
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I must disagree with the first answer.  yes culture says all that stuff but its not ture.\n\nYes sex is legal, the legal is 16, if the guy does not have a job, if he does have a job then the age is 18.  (korean use a different method for determining age, so always ask what year they were born.)\n\nKorean love to have sex, which is why (if you are in Seoul) you will see DVD bangs (DVD Rooms) everywhere.  these places are were young people go to have sex, i mean to watch a dvd.\n\nthey also have "love hotels" where the rooms can be rented by the hour.  (they are really really nice, i stayed at a few just because they are cheaper than a regular hotel and much nicer.)\n\nI met a few girls that only wanted to have sex, once it was done they left and that was it.  Not all girls are like that, most are not like that at all, but like in the states, there are a few out there.\n\nif you start dating a korean girl, you will be having sex by your third to forth date.\n\nbut if you are aggressive, good luck, its going to be a while.\n\nbut if you happen to run accross a Japanese girl, then you are in... they mostly go to Korea to get laid then return to Japan.  its crazy.
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I am an Indian\n\nPopular Hindu spring festival. It takes place over two days around late March or early April. As per the Hindu calendar, it falls on the Phalgun Purnima (or Pooranmashi, Full Moon). It is also called the Festival of Colour.\n\nOn the first day, a bonfire is lit at night to signify burning Holika. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people go around until afternoon throwing coloured powder and water at each other, although the powder stings the eyes. A special drink called 'thandai' or bhang is also consumed sometimes, which actually contains small amounts of marijuana (Cannabis sativa). People invite each other to their houses for feasts and celebrations later in the evening. Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities involving colours.\n\nThis festival occurs at the onset of spring. This period, during which the weather changes, is prone to cause viral fever and cold. Thus, the playful throwing of the coloured powders has a medicinal significance as the coloured powders are made of Neem, Kumkum, Haldi, Bilva, and other medicinal herbs prescribed by Āyurvedic doctors.\n\nMythology\n\nHiranyakashipu was the king of demons, and he had been granted a boon by Brahma, which made it almost impossible for him to be killed. The boon was due to his long penance, after which he had demanded that he not be killed "during day or night; inside the home or outside; not on earth or on sky; neither by a man nor an animal; neither by astra nor by shastra". Consequently, he grew arrogant, and attacked the Heavens and the Earth. He demanded that people stop worshipping gods and start praying to him.\n\nDespite this, Hiranyakashipu's own son, Prahlad, was a devotee of Lord Vishnu. In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlad continued offering prayers to Lord Vishnu. He was poisoned but the poison turned to nectar in his mouth. He was ordered to be trampled by elephants yet remained unharmed. He was put in a room with hungry, poisonous snakes and survived. All of Hiranyakashipu's attempts to kill his son failed. Finally, he ordered young Prahlad to sit on a pyre on the lap of his sister, Holika, who could not die by fire by virtue of a shawl which would prevent fire affecting the person wearing it. Prahlad readily accepted his father's orders, and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe. When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as the shawl flew from Holika, who then was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived unharmed, after the shawl moved to cover him. The burning of Holika is celebrated as Holi.\n\nIt is also said that later Lord Vishnu came in the form of a Narasimha (who is half-man and half-lion) and killed Hiranyakashipu at dusk (which was neither day nor night), on the steps of the porch of his house (which was neither inside the house nor outside) by restraining him on his lap (which is neither in the sky nor on the earth) and mauling him with his claws (which are neither astra nor shastra).\n\nIn Vrindavan and Mathura, where Lord Krishna grew up, the festival is celebrated for 16 days (until Rangpanchmi in commemoration of the divine love of Radha for Krishna). Lord Krishna is believed to have popularized the festival by playing pranks on the gopis here. Krishna is believed to be complained to his mother about the contrast between his dark colour and his consort Radha's fair colour. Krishna's mother decided to apply colour to Radha's face. The celebrations officially usher in spring, the celebrated season of love.\n\nThere is another story about the origin of holi. Kamadeva is a god of love. Kama's body was destroyed when he shot his weapon at Shiva in order to disrupt his penance and help Parvati to marry Shiva. Shiva then opened his third eye, the gaze of which was so powerful that Kama's body was reduced to ashes. For the sake of Kama's wife Rati (passion), Shiva restored h
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http://www.beckenham-festival.org.uk/Sdadj.htm
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Just play it safe. \nMake sure you know where you will be enjoying your experience. Have your cell handy and inform a friend where you'll be and when to expect to see you again. (Set the alarm on your phone just in case you need to dress and run in the AM.)\nIt's an awesome and emowering experience in which you will probably be comfortable tring new tricks and playing out your fantsies. \nI had several encounters, most of which I wouldn't trade for the world. Most imortantly I had a good time while exploroing my own sexuality. Enjoy the future!
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Group F Australia & Japan
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If you are talking about Fan Fest at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, follow this URL...\n\nhttp://pirates.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/pit/fan_forum/asg/fanfest_main.jsp
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Here is a decent web site, hope it is helpful.  If you and your friends do go, try and go to Kamakura....wonderful experience!  We lived there for 5 years, and I do miss it, have fun.\n\nhttp://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2221.html\n\n~add on~ Japan does let immigrants come in, Japan is a booming country, granted they are STRICT with their immigration policies and laws, but they do allow people from all over to come there.  It is not just the American military there anymore.
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If you mean the Solo and Ensemble Festival it is a festival. (DUH!) It is when dedicated mucicians receive a solo and or ensemble to perform in front of judges and be graded. It is fun!
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Boryeong, South Korea ... they have festivals honoring their mud.
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You are talking about Live door of Japan. That is great. Do you need info in Japanese or English about that?\n\nBut I give a link of the live door blog.\n\nIf need further help  can contact me nihon94@yahoo.com
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Just by googling  Gay "Ann Arbor" I came up with quite a few links, below.\n\nHere's gay folklore.  Look for the most phallic symbol in Ann Arbor... a bell tower, a landmark, particularly if it's in or near a park.  There will be gay people there.  I don't know why it works (I have ideas) but it does.\n\n***Added some links from a friend in Ann Arbor
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Lol, well you can post a personal ad on Yahoo personals and answer everything with Japanese characteristics, or you can go to Japan Town in San Francisco, CA. Try a yahoo yellow page search for Japanese culture: churches, food, stores...Good luck hun!
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No.  I lived over there for six years, and I worked with a lesbian couple from the UK.  They definitely kept their lesbianism to themselves, because it's just not accepted over there like it is here.\n\nAnd don't expect "this is how I am, so just accept it and accept me" to work in Japan.  It would be a mistake to expect the Japanese to change their culture in order to accomodate your "alternative lifestyle."  It would also be culturally arrogant.
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http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/fiestas/lasfallas.asp\n\nIts some party in Spain