The New Year’s holiday is an important tradition in Japan.
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After catching some clips of “The Endless Summer,” a legendary surfing movie from the ‘60s, I was recently inspired to get back on a surfboard.
Riganryu, or “rip currents,” are strong currents of water flowing away from the coastline.
Despite the oft-repeated myth, Coca-Cola did not in fact invent the modern image of a fat, jolly, red-and-white-clad Santa Claus.
Tattoos used fall into one of two categories: color or monochrome.
Beachgoers to Okinawa’s Motobu Town area may have come across a unique rock formation as they check out its surrounding coral and schools of tropical fish that live there.
Eat like a local, and try one of hundreds of options of tsumami dishes you’ll find at many restaurants around Japan.
If you’re a Japanese food fan, you may have heard of okonomiyaki; a Korean food afficionado—chijimi. But Okinawa also has its own version: hirayachi.
Sefa Utaki is the Okinawan way of acknowledging the “ultimate ancestor”, the creator of the Ryukyu Islands. It is a place of respect, reflection and thanksgiving, much like the shrines in other parts of the world where we pay respect for those who have gone before us.
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