resource, Daily Living in Japanese (80 pages)

S. Wakabayashi and S. Renovich produced "Daily Living in Japanese" through Japan Foundation's Fellowship program.
It is a collection of activities for beginner students, http://sites.google.com/site/nihongobc/:

Daily Schedule
My Week
Invitation
Planning An Event, and
Creative Works
 
Find the file at the Nihongo BC website in the Japanese 11 resources.
Some of the activities are suitable for lower levels. It's about 80 pages long.

summer lion dance, shishimai

Friends in Fukui-ken created a YouTube channel recently. They've started with two movies, about 10 minutes each (YouTube limit on ordinary accounts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTIFjCIAllc [troupe based in Mie, but traveling their annual circuit of blessing]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GikgN-nSus [lots of commentary in the ?Mie-ken dialect; juggling at 6'45"]