Okinawa Mayor Responds to Civic Group's Request to Cancel Gsdf Performance at Eisa Festival: "Who Is Causing Division?"

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The second day of the 70th Anniversary Okinawa All-Island Eisa Festival (sponsored by the festival's executive committee) was held on the 13th, with the 47th Okinawa City Youth Festival taking place at the Koza Athletic Stadium in Okinawa City. A total of 13 groups, including youth associations from the city, performed. They showed off their brilliant drumstick skills and dynamic dances. The venue was packed with families, couples and other peop…

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In response to the backlash from some civic groups over the participation of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's 15th Brigade Eisa Troop in the Okinawa All-Island Eisa Festival (held from the 12th to the 14th) in Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture, which features an ancestral memorial dance known as "Eisa," Mayor Daisuke Hanashiro, who serves as the festival's executive committee chairman, made a statement on the 13th...