The community is invited to enjoy an afternoon of Okinawan music and dance from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Maui Okinawa Cultural Center in Wailuku. Admission is free to the family-friendly event.

Kanayo Amakawa is the other piece indicating a love story between the two characters, portrayed by Takana Kojima and Michihiko Kakazu. This dance tells the story of a man and woman whose love is ...

Songs are part of the fabric of life in Okinawa Prefecture. When a song rings out, everyone naturally starts to dance. Okinawa is a prefecture in the south of Japan composed of a main island and more ...

The local culture of the Yanbaru region in the northern part of Okinawa Prefecture is rich in variety, ranging from traditional dance and theater to bōjutsu staff fighting and Eisa drum dancing, ...

From the tropical breezes of their native island to the brights lights of New York City, two sisters will hit the stage at Carnegie Hall in June to showcase the “Ryukyu Buyou” Okinawan dance. Natsuko ...

Japanese theater has gained a great deal of international recognition, so most people are likely familiar with kabuki or noh. Fewer, however, may have heard of Ryūkyū buyō — the traditional dance of ...

URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Nobuko Oshiro didn't back off when her instructor of an Okinawan-style dance suggested that she take karate to improve her dance steps. “I found that a karate dojo ...

Performers with the Kilauea Okinawa Dance Club dance to “Iwai Bushi” on stage at the 35th annual Okinawan Festival at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand in 2017.

Charles Young began his talk to a group of veterans last week by describing the horrors he witnessed on the Japanese island of Okinawa during World War II, and he ended by reciting the words to “Save ...

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