The 'Kitano Goryoe', a ceremony happens at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto for the first time in 550 years. And in Shiga prefecture, Burume-no-Oka Brewery holds hop-picking sessions for its locally brewed beer. In Fukushima's Sukagawa Archive Center is holding yearly special-effects workshops with the hope of finding the next generation of SFX artists like the legendary effects artist Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-1970), the "Father of Tokusatsu" who co-created Godzilla, was responsible for Ultraman and whose hometown is also Sukagawa City.