About 20 years ago, an Okinawa-born dancer Akiko Hawkins came to Australia as a working holiday maker. After travelling around the country, she settled in the city of Perth which she had never ...

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 ...

With the introduction of the solar calendar in modern Japan, Lunar New Year celebrations have lost its place as a major event in Japan. However, even today, there are areas, such as the southern part ...

The Eisa dance, as it is called, is an ancient Okinawan tradition unique to the culture. Its purpose is for the Okinawan people to pay respect to their ancestors through folk dance. This has ...

Francis Nakachi-Kuba is a master instructor of Okinawan dance and president of the Hawaii United Okinawa Association. “Okinawa was faced with much poverty and harsh living conditions ...