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Beijing International Tourism Expo

A musical performance featuring the "sanshin" traditional instrument from Japan's Okinawa Prefecture is held at the Japan booth set up for the Beijing International Tourism Expo in the Chinese capital on June 15, 2024.

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Event in Beijing to promote Japan-bound trips

A man plays the "sanshin" three-stringed traditional instrument from Japan's Okinawa Prefecture during an event held at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 31, 2023, to promote tourism to Japan. The number of Chinese visitors to Japan has plunged in the past three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - With Yukito Ara (R) on sanshin (Okinawa shamisen) and Isamu Shimoji on guitar, Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, performs during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014.

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Isamu Shimoji and Yukito Ara of Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, play the guitar and "Sanshin" (Okinawa shamisen) during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014.

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Okinawa musicians perform at New York concert

NEW YORK, United States - Shinobu Matsuda (front) from Okinawa, southern Japan, performs an Okinawan folk song on a "sanshin" local guitar during a concert in New York on Feb. 22, 2014.

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N. Korea holds seminar on investment in Mt. Kumgang tourist zone

Takeyasu Kojima, president of Tokyo-based Sanshin Travel Service Inc., speaks in an interview on May 27, 2015, about his participation in an investment seminar held on North Korea's Mt. Kumgang. The event, aimed at attracting foreign investment in the "Wonsan-Mt. Kumgang International Tourist Zone," was the first on-site investment seminar since the zone was created in June 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Biracial Okinawan works to preserve endangered local language

Byron Fija, a teacher of the Okinawan language, holds a "Sanshin" musical instrument in November 2014. Fija, born to an American father and a mother native to Okinawa Prefecture in Japan, has been working to preserve the endangered language. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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79-year-old drummer's six-decade journey with Okinawan jazz

Shoei Uehara, a 79-year-old drummer known for the unique "Uchina jazz" that incorporates elements of the local Ryukyu music scale and "sanshin" Japanese guitar, performs at his drums in this photo taken on Feb. 27, 2014. To this day, Uehara still makes a weekly appearance on stage at a live house in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after a six-decade journey during which he witnessed firsthand the evolution of Okinawan jazz from the U.S. postwar occupation to the present time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's slugger-pitcher Shohei Otani

Shohei Otani (C) and fellow Nippon Ham Fighters players Tatsuya Morimoto (L) and Ruita Usami get playful on a beach in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture, holding a local traditional musical instrument "sanshin," during pre-season camp in February 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Isamu Shimoji and Yukito Ara of Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, play the guitar and "Sanshin" (Okinawa shamisen) during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Traditional Japanese arts performance in Sydney

Musicians play "sanshin" three-stringed instruments from the southern island prefecture of Okinawa during a Japanese traditional arts show at the Sydney Opera House on Dec. 16, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo