This summer, Japan and Hawaii will unite in celebration of hula for the ninth annual Hula Ho’olauna Aloha Festival. This one-of-a-kind event, which honors hula’s traditional customs and vibrant ...

Join the excitement in the 11th Annual Hula Ho’olauna Aloha Festival in Honolulu, HI. Taking place on July 7 and 8, 2012, the festival celebrates Japan’s love for the hula and bridges the two cultures ...

Kumu Hula Lopaka Igarta-DeVera leads Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu in Japan. He is one of the kumu hula from Hawaii featured in filmmaker Lisette Flanary’s latest documentary, “Tokyo Hula.” ...

HONOLULU, July 11 (UPI) -- The number of Japanese enrolling in lessons to study Hawaiian hula dancing and ukulele-playing has reached an all-time high, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. The surge can ...

HONOLULU -- The 12th annual Hula Ho'olauna Aloha festival will once again bring together Japan and Hawai'i in honor of hula's traditional customs and vibrant culture for a weekend-long celebration.

Thanks to the popularity of the 2006 film "Hula Girls," fitness centers in Japan are offering more hula courses. According to an article last month in The Japan Times, Tipness Ltd., a major fitness ...

Maui Kumu Hula Uluwehi Guerrero recently released his first CD single, the beautiful song “Miyazaki i ka Hikina o ka Lā,” which he composed as a gift for Japanese hula students. “In the path of the ...

NAGOYA, Japan (KHNL) - In a bustling country, not quite the size of California, 130 million people stay focused, and work hard to make Japan one of the most productive countries in the world. A world ...

TOKYO — “Hula Girls,” Sang-il Lee’s dramedy about a troupe of Japanese hula dancers in a declining coal mining town in the 1960s, topped the best ten list of the Kinema Junpo (“Kinejun”) magazine’s ...

Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers” took home the foreign film prize at the 30th annual awards from the Japan Academy on Friday, while local fave “Hula Girls” was the big winner with four trophies ...