A new month has just started. August is hachigatsu (八月) in Japanese. The old name is hazuki (葉月), literally leaf month.
For students it is a time of the summer vacation. For adults they can take some days off around the middle of the month at the time of obon (お盆), the Bon Festival.
It is a time of summer festivals. There are five or six big festivals in Tohoku (東北) area. Among them two of them started today. One of them is Sansa odori(さんさ踊り) in Morioka (盛岡) which started in 1978.
http://www.sansaodori.jp/pdf/sansa_english.pdf
The other is Hirosaki Neputa matsuri(弘前ねぷた祭り) which is supposed to attract about 1,500,000 to 1,600,000 visitors.
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