CNMI officials and Pacific Development Inc. hosted a dinner for 37 Micronesian Repatriation Association of Okinawa and Okinawan Prefectural Assembly members at the Carolinian Affairs Office pavilion on Thursday night.
SAIPAN Mayor and Lt. Gov.-elect David M. Apatang, and some local families hosted a dinner for 24 visiting members of the Micronesian Repatriation Association or MRA of Okinawa at Sugar
AFTER a break last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Japanese Society of Northern Marianas brought back the Japanese Autumn Festival on Saturday evening at the Paseo De Marianas
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A girl pounds mochi at the Paseo De Marianas on Dec. 28 2020.
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Due to travel restrictions that have shut down the local tourism industry, the Marianas Visitors Authority cancelled its annual âChristmas in the Marianasâ program, which included the mochi-pounding event.
But the Japanese Society of the Northern Marianas decided to hold the event nonetheless in collaboration with PDM Promoters and the Japan Consulate, said Hiroko Tajima, acting chairwoman of the Japanese Society of the Northern Marianas.
Children check out the takeuma, the Japanese walking stilts.
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Tajima said mochi or rice cakes were served in three different flavors: red beans, soybeans with sugar, and soy sauce with seaweed.