It is a dream come true for Tatsuhiro Oshiro, a native Okinawan and Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist and playwright.
A national theater, designed to nurture and promote the traditional performing arts of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, was completed July 31 in Urasoe, adjacent to Okinawa's capital Naha.
Another important task of the theater will be to facilitate the study of the performing arts of the Asia-Pacific region and provide a venue for presenting them.