Activities Paantu Festival in Okinawa 2024 Sarah Koh Okinawa's Miyakojima island celebrates the Paantu festival – an ancient form of exorcism involving supernatural creatures, ma...
Culture Okinawa International Movie Festival 2025 Kim The annual Okinawa International Movie Festival is a chance to showcase both international and domestic films, and highlight ...
Activities Nago Cherry Blossom Festival 2025 Kim Being Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa's cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom in the months of January and February. A w...
Culture Ryukyu Lantern Festival 2024-2025 Bonson Lam It is said that in many moons ago in China, women were not allowed out of the house at night, except on the 15th day of the C...
Culture The Kitchen God of Sefa Utaki Bonson Lam Sefa Utaki is the Okinawan way of acknowledging the “ultimate ancestor”, the creator of the Ryukyu Islands. It is a place of...
Activities Cherry Blossom in Okinawa Japan Travel Okinawa's cherry blossoms are the first to bloom in Japan every year. Because of the warm climate, they are different from th...
Food Nakijin's Cafe Koku Bonson Lam Could this be the best vegetarian and vegan cafe in Okinawa? Perched on an ocean side mountain just 90 minutes northwest of N...
Culture Something's Afoot Hillary Lewis The Pacific Okinawa Players Theatre group presents "Something's Afoot," a family friendly musical.
Culture Naha Tug-of-War Festival 2024 Guilhem Malfre Every October, Naha hosts its annual Tug-of-War Festival, where competing teams face off with a 200-meter long rope – a Guinn...
Culture Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr Hillary Lewis Pacific Okinawa Players theatre group's production of The Little Mermaid Jr opens this weekend. This production is family and...
