Abstract
Because of the coronavirus pandemic which occurred the early 2020, various traditional festival in Japan were cancelled. On the other hand, there were some festivals which held in Online, or smaller scale than before the coronavirus pandemic. In this study, we researched situations of festivals in Japan in environment of the coronavirus pandemic, and interviewed feelings of people involved and residents regarding the cancellation of festivals. Festivals contribute the inheritance of each local tradition and the development social capital. Cancellation of such festivals have possibilities of bad influences on residents and relationship population. It has been pointed out that folk performing arts inherently transformative. Considering this points, holding festivals online can be considered not only as an emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic, but also as a form of transformation that fits the times and circumstances.
https://ror.org/00ntfnx83 
