Only a week after a parade with labarum, firecrackers and karate practitioners marched down Kokusai Street, it will be ...

Members of a Sydney-based Okinawan dance group, Eisa Champroo. Yasue Taggart, the founder of the group (front centre) Source: Yasue Taggart Yasue Taggart started a Sydney-based Okinawan dance group ...

Lines of vehicles and pedestrians waited to enter Camp Foster on May 14, as the base opened its gates to residents of Okinawa. Camp Foster hosted an Eisa festival featuring young adult Eisa groups as ...

Those of us who live on Okinawa started to notice something going on back in early June. Perhaps it was the rhythmic beat of the drums in the cool evening air. On some occasions, maybe you heard the ...

On Sept. 14, 1975, the sky above Osaka was cloudless. In the city’s Taisho Ward — home to many people from Okinawa Prefecture — the first-ever Eisa dance festival was held by a group of young ...