Misako Kamata, who is president of Kinpachi Restaurant and the prime mover behind the Saipan Awaodori Team, which sends a Saipan delegation to the Awaodori Festival in Japan each year, was honored in a ceremony last Friday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan with the 2019 Japan Foreign...

With this year’s Green Gala centered on the “Bring Back our Trees” campaign, the Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance honored three environmental tree-planting heroes—Tracy Burgess, PDM Promoters, Inc. (Kinpachi Restaurant), and Hopwood Middle School—at Friday evening’s gala at the...

For PDM Promoters, Inc. director Misako Kamata, the non-profit organization’s continued cleanup of Paseo de Marianas simply means the group cares about the area. “A clean environment is not just a pretty sight, it is a sign that our community cares,” she said shortly after 38...

Members of the Saipan Awaodori collected close to 600 lbs of trash during their monthly cleanup of Garapan last Saturday. The cleanup, spearheaded by Misako Kamata, the chief executive officer and director of PDM Promoters Inc., picked up trash in the Paseo de Marianas area,...