Arigatõ gozaimasu!
Well, portuguese is my native language, I'ts one of the hardest languages to learn to speak, more difficult than japanese, but since I'm portuguese I find Japanese language harder...
I learned English since I play video-games as a child, and all of them were in English. And I'm trying to learn Japanese because I hope to live there and work there someday!
To say hello in Portuguese, you say "Olá", and pronounce it like this: Oh-Lá
You can say "Bom Dia" which is the same than "Ohayõ"
Wasn't Miyagi struck by an earthquake and a tsunami? I think it was Miyagi...
I searched "Star Festival" on Google, it looks amazing!
We have some popular festivals, but none of them compares to the Japan ones, Some live music, stands to eat, and in the end we have fireworks, but these years the fireworks have been weak and thats it... :D