Okinawan obon dance practice will be offered at the Rinzai Zen Mission in Paia at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 25, Aug. 1 and Aug. 8. The mission is next to Baldwin Park. For more information, call 579-9921.

In 1964, Okinawan dance master Yuko Majikina and his ohana performed in Hawaii to help fund the acquisition of an extensive cultural collection. Housed at UH’s Hamilton Library, this collection will ...

Ken loves exotic dances and the grace that comes with them. He is travelling the four corners of the world, but it is on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa where he meets olden Ryukyu (Okinawan) ...