ENTERTAINMENT
Pick Up Stories
Itoman Haaray; a traditional and fun eve… [CULTURE Festival]
The Itoman Haaray takes place on the May 4th of the Lunar Calendar. This day is actually June 18th 2026 of the Gregorian Calendar. Most peop...Read More
Chasing the Dragon – The Naha Haarii [Festival]
The Naha Haarii Festival will happen during Golden Week from May 3-5, 10:00 ~ 19:00 at the Naha New Port. Haarii — meaning “dragon boat” in ...Read More
Golden Week, Japan’s Mega Holiday [CULTURE Family Festival]
Spring is here. And in Japan that means warmer weather, cherry blossoms, and rainy season. But, before the rainy season takes hold and shrou...Read More
2015.04.18
Ie Island Easter Lily fields invite to annual festival [Festival]
By Bill Charles Get ready to grab the camera, pile family and friends in the car and put a trip to Ie Island on the calendar for this weekend to take in a million Easter Lilies rol...
Movies in AAFES Okinawa Theaters Apr. 18 ~ 24 [Movies -On Base-]
KADENA THEATER Admission Prices Adult $6.00, Child $3.25 3D movies Adult $8.00 Child $5.25 18 Sat 0900 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 PG 18 Sat 1115 Unfriended R 18 Sat 1315 Pau...
2015.04.16
Chuko spring festival is all about Awamori [Festival]
The 9th Chuko Spring Festival is a perfect opportunity for visitors and locals to learn about Awamori this weekend, taste some, and even compete in an Awamori tasting contest in To...
2015.04.16
5 x 5 basketball show ‘all about volunteers’ [ENTERTAINMENT]
A basketball 5-on-5 entertainment show is slated for Sunday in Uruma City, with a freestyle championship basketball team joining Okinawa groups to benefit cleaning activities in th...
2015.04.16
There’s ‘Music in the Air’ this weekend [Festival]
Seventy bands and 30 deejays are tweaking their repertoire for the year’s earliest open air summer music festival, and the best news is that it is a free open air music event. The ...
Horoscope [Horoscope]
Apr. 16 ~ 22 Aries The planets are now aligned in a way that creates a happy, romantic, artistic and creative aura around you, and you are perfectly positioned to have a very nice ...
2015.04.14
Survival game festival takes new aim this weekend [ENTERTAINMENT]
‘Sabage’ is the Japanese abbreviation for a survival game festival engaging in all out warfare survival using Airsoft model guns. The survival game, Operation Okinawa Vol. 3, Sabag...
2015.04.12
Okuma Fest welcomes beach season to Okinawa [Festival]
The largest beach party of the year on Okinawa, Okuma Fest, is a mix of American and Okinawan cultures this weekend. Okuma Fest is free, and open to the entire Okinawa community at...
2015.04.12
Jazz Guild Orchestra orchestrates spring music festival [ENTERTAINMENT]
The Okinawa Jazz Guild Orchestra is a big band that likes to play groovy jazz music in live performances, and they’re ready to show off Sunday afternoon at the Okinawa Prefectural ...
Movies in AAFES Okinawa Theaters Apr. 11 ~ 17 [Movies -On Base-]
KADENA THEATER Admission Prices Adult $6.00, Child $3.25 3D movies Adult $8.00 Child $5.25 11 Sat 0830 Cinderella PG 11 Sat 1055 Home PG 11 Sat 1310 Get Hard R 11 Sat 15...
2015.04.10
Goats, bulls are core of Motobu Festival [Festival]
The Motobu tourism and culture festival is Saturday, and it’s a sure bet visitors will find it totally different than countless other festivals that dot the Okinawa landscape. The ...
2015.04.10
Entertainment abounds at Camp Foster Festival [Festival]
The 2015 season for Marine Corps Community Services entertainment festivals is here, firing up the organization’s energies for the Camp Foster Festival this weekend. The free festi...
2015.04.10
Ryukyu Kaiensai means massive fireworks! [Festival]
By Bill Charles Hours and hours of entertainment, including an ultra-spectacular fireworks program set to music, will join forces April 11th as Okinawa’s summer gets under way with...
2015.04.10
7th Terurin festival honors Okinawan entertainment icon [Festival]
Almost three dozen entertainers and groups are heading on stage Sunday to honor an Okinawa musical giant who died in 2005. The nine-hour concert on Chuo Park Avenue in Koza pays ho...
Horoscope [Horoscope]
Apr. 9 ~ 15 Aries Sometimes it would be good to stop and think about ways to improve the quality of your life. For the next week or so there shouldn’t be any major problems that yo...
2015.04.05
Bar Nikita invites everyone to join reviving Nakanomachi [ENTERTAINMENT]
Nikita owner calls it a ‘Free-style Girls Bar.’ It’s a place that is especially busy every weekend when many of its regular customers, an amicable mix of locals and foreigners gath...
Movies in AAFES Okinawa Theaters Apr. 04 ~ 10 [Movies -On Base-]
KADENA THEATER Admission Prices Adult $6.00, Child $3.25 3D movies Adult $8.00 Child $5.25 04 Sat 0800 Home PG 04 Sat 1020 Furious 7 PG13 04 Sat 1330 Furious 7 PG13 04 S...
2015.04.02
Great Japan Beer Festival features 40+ breweries [Festival]
By Bill Charles Beer is king this weekend at Helios Pub on Kokusai Street as the brew pub hosts the Great Japan Beer Festival, bringing together more than 40 breweries and 50 diffe...
2015.04.02
Champion Carnival pro-wrestling returns Sunday [ENTERTAINMENT]
Professional wrestling champions are going into action Sunday at the Okinawa Convention Center, with sumo great Akebono headlining the card. Akebono Taro, a former sumo wrestler wh...
2015.04.02
Danish jazz singer to perform at Garaman Hall [ENTERTAINMENT]
Highly acclaimed Danish jazz singer Sinne Eeg is making her Okinawa debut at Ginoza Culture Center Garaman Hall on Sunday. Eeg is a well-known jazz singer in her home country of De...
RYUKYU PRESS