The event was organized with the support of the Embassy of Japan in Uzbekistan, the Uzbekistan-Japan Center, and the Japan Club, supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Representative of the World Association of Bon Odori Mr. Shigetada Kayyumi also arrived for this festival from Japan.
Bon Odori is a popular Japanese dance, which takes place from the beginning of summer till autumn in all Japanese regions. Religious ritual dance combined with the tradition of meeting the spirits of ancestors "Bon", which commemorates deceased people, and gradually transformed into the current style of dance.
At this festival, people are gathering, dressed in yukata (summer kimono) and holding a special fan (ugava) and Japanese towel (tenugui). A typical bon-odori is a dance around a high wooden structure called "Yagura" (tower), erected specially for the festival, under which hang large number of glowing lanterns. Yagura serves as a platform for musicians and singers. Dancers can move around the Yagura. Because of dance is very simple everyone can freely participate.
As previously reported, in April month the delegation of business circles of Singapore held cooperation exchange meetings with representatives of ministries, agencies, private companies of Uzbekistan and the business community in Singapore, which took place in capital’s international business center and registered as a 4th Uzbek-Singapore business forum. Recently at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Singapore have gathered some members of the...
The Uzbek Agency of Communication and Information held a meeting with a delegation of Inha University (Republic of Korea), headed by the President of the University, Mr. Bon Soo Lee. Founded in 1954, Inha University is now one of the leading universities of the Republic of Korea. To date, the university enrolled about 20 thousand students in various fields of industry, science and technology. The sides noted the close cooperation of the Tashkent...
Management of Dedeman Hotels & Resorts international announced opening two new hotels in the end of this year. Dedeman Shiraz 3* hotel will be the first Dedeman hotel in Iran. The second one will be 5* hotel Dedeman Baku in Azerbaijan. Dedeman hotels & Resorts international has an aim to reach 50 hotels till the year 2016.This group now operates in 5 countries with 22 hotels.
“We learn about the people not by their name but by their culture and through their spirituality. The decisive role in the spiritual rebirth of a nation, the admission of the population to cultural property belongs to museums” – the words of the president of Uzbekistan. To date, in the country operates more than 90 governmental and more than 1,200 public museums. Republican fund "Uzbekmuzey" coordinates its work, which provides them with full...
On May 21 at the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi was opened a resource center which is supported by the UN Development Program in Uzbekistan in the framework of the UNDP project. The official part of the event was opened by the Director of the National Library of Uzbekistan Mr. A. Umarov, as well as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Uzbekistan Mr. Kyoko Postill. Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Mr. Marat...
