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Susan Miyagi McCormac Leads JapanCulture•NYC: Sharing Her Passion for Japanese Culture and Japanese Life in New York City

As the founder and editor-in-chief of JapanCulture•NYC, an English-language resource fo…

Karen Kawaguchi • Aug. 21, 2023

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History—Okinawan Clubs of Hawaii

Preserving a Way of Life of Their Native Land My curiosity was piqued by a video interview by Ba…

Dan Nakasone • Nov. 15, 2022

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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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The first Nisei and Okinawa

I write this article in memory and recognition of all the Nisei who had to travel from a very young…

Fernando Nakasone Nozoe • June 29, 2022

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Dancing in the Clouds

This month, we have the honor of publishing works by two poets who lent their voices to our second …

Shō Tanaka +2 • May 20, 2021

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History of the Okinawan Diaspora and the Silent Conquest

In 1968, the skeleton of a boy was discovered at the Yamashita-cho archaeological site, near Naha P…

Ilton Guenhiti Shinzato • April 14, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Okinawan Association of Peru, 110 years of history

In 1906, immigrants from Okinawa arrived in Peru for the first time. Four years later, they formed …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Oct. 16, 2020

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Cultural Merging and Identity: A Fourth-Generation Okinawan Japanese Peruvian American Speaks Out

Michelle Yamashiro has been told she has little trouble expressing herself. The vibrant 28-year-o…

Sharon Yamato • June 11, 2019

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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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Yoshihiro Toume, who connects Uchinanchu around the world from his base in Los Angeles

Planning a food event at a U.S. military base in Okinawa I think it was around 2005 when I first me…

Keiko Fukuda • April 7, 2017

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