Listening in silence to the radio as the weather report came through, our Ryukyuan friend explained to the team, “Two Typhoons are coming our way, and they may hit us!” Typhoons are common during this time of year and the Islands of Okinawa are often in their path. Okinawa, Japan, a cluster of beautiful islands, is a cultural crossroads of many Asian and Western influences. Speakers of the Hogen dialect, “Okinawan,” number almost a million people. Although there are churches

Those of you who have been following the SoCAM on Facebook will know that recently we went to our target location to do the field assignment research for our annual animation project. I could go on and on about our various adventures (and misadventures!), such as scaling Poem mountain, or crawling through caves, or getting sneak peeks of traditional water puppet shows, but in the interest of being concise, I'll just give you the highlights. We went on this trip to record the