It’s something longevity expert Dan Buettner, who discovered the five Blue Zones (places where people regularly live to be over 100 years old in good health), saw first-hand in Okinawa, Japan. In this ...

Chinagu Eisa Hawaii performed at the Hawaii United Okinawa Association’s Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani Park in 2015. Add the remaining coconut milk from the first can and all of the second can, along ...

Share Uchinanchu aloha this weekend at the 28th annual Okinawan Festival. Kapiolani Park will be filled with the tantalizing aroma of fresh andagi (Okinawan doughnuts), Okinawan pigs’ feet soup, ...

The need to balance the usefulness and effectiveness of any supplement is essential. Good health is important, but the need to maintain it has caused the production of many supplements. Some of these ...

Here’s what the San Francisco chef Stuart Brioza learned about traditional farm-to-table cuisine from the local restaurateur Emiko Kinjo when he flew to Japan's southernmost prefecture. In a quiet ...

Chef Ivan Orkin's first exposure to Japan was a lowly one, washing dishes in a Long Island sushi bar when he was just 15. But he fell in love with the cuisine and the culture. After restaurant work in ...

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