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 ...

The three interviewees were Ayaka Teruya, a mother of two, Riona Akamine, an Okinawan traditional dancer, and Yasue Taggart Yasue, president of the Sydney Okinawa Prefectural Association ...

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 ...