International Nikkei Day - June 20, 2018

A while back I saw in a Nikkei related facebook page that two young men, Andrés Higa from Argentina and Tadashi Andrés Ysa Urbina from Peru, had started a project. They lived in Okinawa and wanted to reclaim their roots, which for them meant Uchinanchu, and to be known and recognized in the world as such. The idea came about while they were studying and it turned into a major effort, as it wasn’t easy to achieve their first dream: creating Worldwide Uchinanchu Day on October 30.
We have only seen the end result of a long ...