Celebrating Japanese Festivals. Volume VII Number 12 . . . . Illustrated by Toru Sugita. Review by Ruth McMahon. Companies reserve space in parks for office outings.
People eat, drink, and sing.
Clouds of pink paper flowers drift through trees. Food stalls tempt with soba noodles, vegetables fried in tempura batter, anpan buns stuffed with sweet red bean paste, rice-cakes colored pink white and green. Its Sakura Matsuri, the Cherry Blossom Festival. It is the United States. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., and other cities, Japanese Americans have created a new tradition for celebrating their heritage.