SAPPORO—The mask mandate has been lifted for the Yosakoi Soran Festival here, and dancers from Hong Kong and South Korea will join the early summer event for the first time in four years.

An almost perfectly preserved wooden mask from around the early third century that likely featured in important farming festivals was uncovered at an archaeological site in Osaka Prefecture.

Sheikha Madiya Bint Saeed Obaid Al Maktoum and her children, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Juma Ahmad Al Maktoum and Sheikha Hind Bint Juma Ahmad Al Maktoum, visited ‘The Festival of Mask’ at the ...