The Makishi masquerade is performed at the end of the mukanda, an annual initiation ritual for boys between the ages of eight and twelve. This ritual is celebrated by the Vaka Chiyama Cha Mukwamayi ...
Typhoon Bebinca approached the Okinawa and Amami regions in southwestern Japan on Saturday, September 14. Bebinca brought ...
NAHA--The Makishi Public Market in central Naha was born here in 1950 as an outgrowth of the black market that flourished immediately after the end of World War II. The market was packed with so ...
A female sales clerk at the Makishi Public Market tested positive on April 4, and the market was closed at 5:30 p.m. the same day, Naha city officials said. The woman had been off work since March ...
Summer days in the southern tip of Japan can be gloriously slow or boisterously jolly as one explores the many attractions of ...
former City Center President & CEO Arlene Shuler launched a festival that would bring the best in dance to a broader New York audience for the price of a movie ticket,” said Stanford Makishi ...