I'm so fricking out of touch with my culture I didn't remember or didn't even know such a thing was celebrated...

Buddha's birthday : Girls wearing Japanese traditional costumes attend a parade on a street of Tokyo's Azabu-Juban, a Buddhist "flower festival" to celebrate the birthday of the Buddha. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/phot...BHNlYwNzc25hdg
Kinda weird that the kids photographed at this festival don't seem to be Japanese...