2012-03-30, haha. could be ya dear, the student satetrd it off with his friends. soon others joined, and a festival satetrd! the snow festival here is also new and has a similar history or so, with the defense wing of japan also helping in and making it popular.at these dance festivals you can see small kids to very old people joining the dance! some of them carry their babies and dance! they gave me costumes and i also joined them. it was fun! so once in a while i get out of the flow and took these photos hehe. Reply