The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st-century Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a ...

The 2023 Okinawa Chinese Music Festival, the first large-scale event of its kind, was held in Okinawa last week. The festival showcased a spectacular array of performances, including traditional ...

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 ...

(HawaiiNewsNow) - The Okinawan Festival is organized and run by an army of over two thousand volunteers from the HUOA's 49 member-clubs and their extended 'ohana of Uchinanchu and Uchinanchu-at-heart.

Before the Okinawa archipelago became incorporated into Japan, its people developed their own distinctive forms of dance. This presentation draws from both the rarefied court tradition and more ...

In February 2011, a large earthquake hit Christchurch and the surrounding Canterbury area, and in March a major earthquake struck north-eastern Japan. During those difficult times our two countries ...