rt Satoshi Kobayashi first came to Saipan in 1989 to represent his company that was a sponsor in the Tagaman Triathlon. That first visit kicked off a 31-year love affair with the island, one that has made the Kyoto native and his family take as much as four vacations in a year on...

PDM Promoters collected 540 lbs of trash during its January cleanup of Paseo de Marianas on Martin Luther King Day last Jan. 20. A total of 34 volunteers showed up for the monthly cleanup: 27 members of the Saipan Awaodori Team and seven employees of Kinpachi Restaurant. “We did...

Many Chinese went to Peru to work in coffee farms or escape the turmoil in their own country during the 1800s and one of the many things that came out of this cultural fusion is Chifan, a kind of cuisine and culinary tradition that fuses Chinese and Peruvian ingredients and...

Four representatives of the Saipan Mayors’ Office, along with 10 students from both public and private schools, arrived on Saipan last Feb. 11 from a weeklong trip in Japan, where they learned more about the Japanese culture, customs, language, and daily life, as part of the...