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The 18th Uchinanchu Festival: A gathering of Okinawans from around the world

A symbol of Okinawa's individuality The 7th World Uchinanchu Festival (organized by the Okinaw…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 11, 2022

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Japan Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Uchinanchu

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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30

Karen Tengan Okuda: Exploring and Expressing Her Uchinānchu / Okinawan Identity

As a second-generation Uchinānchu (Okinawan immigrant), Karen Tengan Okuda lives and works on the u…

Karen Kawaguchi • Oct. 17, 2022

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Revival of the Ryukyu Diplomacy through Uchinanchu Abroad! Alternatives to the Issue of Relocation of the US Military Base to Henoko—Part 2

Thousands of People from Brazil and Hawaii Gather for This Huge Event The next thing I think of af…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Sept. 2, 2022

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Julieta Fonte Iha, a Cuban Nikkei

Modernity shortens distances, information is just a click away, we can strengthen bonds of friendsh…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • July 4, 2022

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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30

Graziela Tamanaha: Young Leadership and Inspiration in the Brazilian Nikkei Community—Part 1

Her father’s family is from Nishihara, Okinawa; her mother’s is from Hokkaido, Japan. H…

Tatiana Maebuchi • Feb. 23, 2022

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Sata Andagi

I don't know when you came into my life, I just know that now you are part of it, of my culture…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • Nov. 19, 2021

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Power of Our Stories

Yoshiki Nagahama of One Okinawa - Media connecting Okinawan people

Colonia Okinawa The web magazine One Okinawa opened on October 30, 2019 as “a web media conn…

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 6, 2020

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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Kenji Igei, the Peruvian Nikkei singer-songwriter with Uchinanchu inspiration

“This is a story that goes beyond my own history, it goes back to my ancestors, to my roots, but it…

Roger Jesús Gonzales Araki • Oct. 9, 2018

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International Nikkei Day - June 20, 2018

A while back I saw in a Nikkei related facebook page that two young men, Andrés Higa fr…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • July 31, 2018

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Thanks to life

When he turned 72 in 2013, Samuel Matsuda Nishimura published a book titled Thank You, Thank You V…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 9, 2018

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