Today, July 7th, is the Tanabata Japanese star festival. If you walk around Tokyo or other Japanese cities today, you will see a lot of bamboo stalks or other tree branches with colorful streamers and lots of little message, which are wishes, written by Japanese people. Here is an example:
At the end of the festival, they are supposed to float the wishes down a river or burn them. In some places they have big festivals with huge decorations and other events. Here is an example of some of the large festival decorations:
Also, you can read the
Wikipedia page about Tanabata.
Have a nice Tanabata Festival!
