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 ...

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 ...

As a result, many islanders tended not to perform Okinawan songs and dance in the public through the 1970s out of fear of discrimination, according to Kaoru Kanagusuku-Kinjo, a researcher who ...