Yasukatsu Oshima, a native of the Yaeyama Islands, southwest of Okinawa’s main island, is a stubborn man. Since emerging as a solo artist in the early 1990s, he has recorded and performed only songs ...

When Kazufumi Miyazawa, vocalist of the Japanese rock band The Boom wrote the song titled “Shima-uta” about 15 years ago, no one imagined the path it would take, starting as a huge domestic hit and ...

Last year, Grammy nominee and Sly & Robbie collaborator Chitose Hajime released her full-length, Amami Shima-Uta; her style is a traditional island music called Amami Shima Uta, found in the town of ...