ENTERTAINMENT
Pick Up Stories
Two days of Christmas fun at Courtney Ho… [Festival]
Some extra holiday cheer is in the offing as MCCS presents the 25th Annual Courtney Holiday Festival. This free event is geared to all ages ...Read More
Courtney Christmas Festival starts holly… [Festival]
MCCS will be spreading some extra holiday cheer this year with their 24th Annual Courtney Christmas & Holiday Festival. This free event ...Read More
Okinawa counts down 2016 and welcomes 20… [ENTERTAINMENT]
As the Year of Monkey turns into the Year of Rooster on Dec. 31, most of the people use the occasion to take part into some kind of countdow...Read More
2012.10.05
Sigma Fest 2012 slated for Sports Day [ENTERTAINMENT]
Universal Music is presenting the Sigma Fest 2012 in Okinawa music festival on the Japanese Sports Day holiday October 8th. The six-hour festival-conbcert at Nishihara Marine Park ...
2012.10.05
Humble sweet potato honored with weekend festival [Festival]
It is a delectable Okinawan vegetable served year around, but this weekend the sweet potato’s status is elevated and honored with a festival of its very own. The 32nd Noguni Soukan...
2012.10.05
Great tug-of-war challenges east vs. west [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
By Bill Charles Take a 44-ton rope and wrap 25,000 pair of hands around it, and what happens? Answer: A tug-of-war Sunday afternoon that will attract hundreds of thousands of spec...
2012.10.05
Miss International Beauty Pageant activities under way [ENTERTAINMENT]
One of the world’s most prestigious beauty pageants, the Miss International Beauty Pageant, is now putting this year’s 80 contestants through their paces on Okinawa. The young ladi...
2012.10.05
Ni-Utu-Umachii: Meeting the roots of Ryukyu music [ENTERTAINMENT]
Ryukyu music has its roots in ancient times, with nature-power and spirituality of the Ryukyu Kingdom’s ancestors playing a big role, and that music’s wings have spread to be ever ...
2012.10.05
Rocktoberfest heads to Torii Beach [Festival]
Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation is sponsoring Rocktoberfest this weekend on Torii Beach, bringing the German style festival to the island. “This isn’t your ordinary Oktoberfest...
2012.09.28
“Goodwill Ambassadors of Beauty” [ENTERTAINMENT]
By Jun Ikemura One of the longest running beauty pageants in the world is making its second appearance in Okinawa in October, bringing 80 young ladies to the stage for the Miss Int...
2012.09.21
7th Oyaji Love Rock Festival kicks off this weekend [Festival]
There’s music in the air at Toyosaki Seaside Park special stage this weekend as the 7th Oyaji Love Rock Festival presents 18 bands. Doors open at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, w...
2012.09.21
China Airlines celebrates 1st anniversary as Skyteam partner [Travel & Beach]
China Airlines is cheering and celebrating this month, acknowledging the first anniversary as a member of Delta’s Skyteam partner system. China Airlines flies twice daily between O...
2012.09.21
Blue Lagoon Festival focuses on ocean and music [Festival]
The Blue Lagoon Festival coming up next weekend is the eighth annual occurrence for the outdoor music event in Nago City. The festival runs September 29th and 30th, with doors open...
2012.09.21
Salsa: Caribbean flavor that’s spicing up Okinawa [ENTERTAINMENT]
By Mana Komatsu Salsa’s a heavily drum-flavored music first spawned outside Cuba in the 1970’s and then caught fire and began spreading first across the Caribbean, and now, around ...
Random body searches to begin at airports in October [Travel & Beach]
Random body searches on international passengers at 29 airports across the country will start next month to prevent explosives from slipping through metal detectors. The Transport ...
2012.09.21
Sales featured at Kanaderu Park Music Festival Saturday [Festival]
Eight entertainment stages will be spread across the Kanaderu Park Music Festival site Saturday for the quarterly event that promises “Funny Music & Yummy Food”. Stages with mu...
2012.09.21
Promenade Concerts to play Okinawa City this fall [ENTERTAINMENT]
Brass bands will be making big sounds in Okinawa City on seven Saturdays this fall as Promenade Concerts at Music Town Sound Market and other Okinawa City venues. The concerts take...
Disney on Classic~a Magical Night 2012 coming in Dec. [ENTERTAINMENT]
Tickets are soon to go on sale for The Disney on Classic~a Magical Night 2012¸ as the Disney epic celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Disney on Classic’s a ‘brilliant concert’ tha...
2012.09.15
Combined bands concert “Friendship Through Music” [ENTERTAINMENT]
There’s music in the air Sunday evening as the Japan Self Defense Forces and III Marine Expeditionary Force present “The Planets” by Gustav Holst at a combined concert, Sunday. The...
2012.09.15
Black Music Day being staged Sunday in Naha [ENTERTAINMENT]
Organizers are billing Sunday evening’s music bash at the Club Toop and Chocolate Milk as the greatest black music party in Okinawa. The Sunday evening concert gets under way at 8 ...
2012.09.15
French art exhibition heads to Ginoza’s Garamand Hall [ENTERTAINMENT]
Not a great many people know who Rene Gruau is, but his works were influential to his sidekick, designer Christian Dior. The youngster born to an Italian father and French mother i...
2012.09.15
Tomarin Fest salutes seven secluded islands [Festival]
Tomarin is a place very familiar to Okinawan residents and tourists who like Okinawa and spend time commuting to outlying isolated islands. It’s festival time now, with the Tomarin...
2012.09.13
Youth Eisa Festivals fill big entertainment weekend [Festival]
Only a week after the All Okinawa Eisa Festival put 23 teams on parade on Gate 2 Street, Okinawa braces for another big weekend of Eisa festivals. Kitanakagusuku Village Youth Asso...
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