Rabbits, ghosts, zombies, Disney and anime characters, creatures beyond imagination. By the thousands they visit the Japanese city of Kawasaki every October. To celebrate Japan’s biggest Halloween Party…
This year the 17th Halloween Event took place in Kawasaki. As always, there was a movie festival, events for kids, a Halloween Club to dance the night away, and most important, the annual Kawasaki Halloween Parade. Some three thousand people from all over Japan, and many countries of the world, thronged the streets to walk and dance behind festival floats with dancers, DJ’s and roaring music. Here are some of the faces I saw:
About the AuthorInspired by the stunningly creative street fashion that exploded on the streets of Tokyo and Osaka in the late 1990’s, photo-journalist Kjeld Duits launched JAPANESE STREETS in 2002. This makes JS one of the first fashion blogs on the net, and the very first to cover Japanese street fashion.
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