More than 30,000 visitors packed the Panasonic Sports Complex stadium in Shah Alam on Saturday, July 18, 2009 for the 33rd Bon Odori Festival celebration.
Everyone present, including Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Bin Ibrahim, Japanese ambassador to Malaysia Masahiko Horie and his wife Mrs. Yoko Horie had an enjoyable evening of Japanese folk songs and Bon dance.
It was a colourful and joyful celebration which brings together Japanese expatriate community, Japanese language students, Japanese thematic clubs and societies members and Malaysians of different races participating in this great event which help strengthen existing bonding of Japan and Malaysia.
Everyone present, including Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Bin Ibrahim, Japanese ambassador to Malaysia Masahiko Horie and his wife Mrs. Yoko Horie had an enjoyable evening of Japanese folk songs and Bon dance.
It was a colourful and joyful celebration which brings together Japanese expatriate community, Japanese language students, Japanese thematic clubs and societies members and Malaysians of different races participating in this great event which help strengthen existing bonding of Japan and Malaysia.
Bon Odori Festival. A great event. You see and feel the beauty of Japanese culture and tradition.
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Visitors sit on the field.
All the spaces are taken up, including the sitting terraces, tracks and fields.
The crowd swarms the food stalls to get a taste of Japanese food.
The stalls sell all foodstuff Japanese like unagi donburi, shoyu ramen, chicken katsu sando and sushi.
A stall selling squid cooked Japanese-style.
A young man wearing a red-dot kamikazee style headband enjoying his bowl of Japanese curry rice.
Young men have fun with red-dot Kamikazee style headbands.
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Sweet ladies in their traditional Japanese yukata.
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Beautiful Japanese yukata.
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Lots of ladies wearing yukata at Bon Odori festival.
More ladies in yukata.
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Cute and adorable.
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Charming and attractive.
There are also those who wear casual outfits.
Ladies wearing brightly colored and floral pattered yukata.
Malay ladies wearing yukata complete with tudung.
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These ladies dressed up in their favorite yukata.
Beautiful smiles.
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Three pretty ladies posing for the camera.
Thousands pack the stadium which are filled to the brim.
There is little room left for anyone to move around.
The dancers thrill the crowd with their Japanease dance.
Policemen on duty to ensure safety and security for everyone.
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A group of ladies showing the peace sign.
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Everyone wants to be with a yukata lady.
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Japanese yukata girls are beautiful.
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Pretty ladies in yukata.
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Cute and adorable little girls in yukata.
Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Bin Ibrahim arrives for the Bon Odori Festival celebrations.
From left: Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Bin Ibrahim, Mrs. Yoko Horie, Masahiko Horie and Selangor state exco Elizabeth Wong join in the celebrations.
Dancing along to folk songs on a yagura (a specially-built platform for the event).
Drummers shows off their resounding beats.
Dancers performing Japanese folk dance on the yagura.
On the ground too, yukata-clad ladies dancing around the stage.
The crowd of people dancing to the Japanese music.
RELA personnel on duty at the fest.
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1 comment:
Hi,
Can I use one of your Bon Odori pictures ? Nicely taken.
Thanks.
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