Yuko Yamauchi
Yuko Yamauchi es una nisei estadounidense de ascendencia okinawense. Sus padres provienen de la parte sur de la isla de Okinawa, específicamente de Itoman y Kochinda. Actualmente es gerente de oficina de Okinawa Association of America, Inc. (OAA) con sede en Gardena, CA.
Actualizado en abril de 2008
Historias de Este Autor
My Taikai Experiences – Thoughts on the Uchinanchu Global Network
16 de abril de 2008 • Yuko Yamauchi
Growing up, my father would talk about relatives we had in Hawaii and relatives we had in Brazil. As a child, the significance of that statement didn’t register—just as my father saying our family was from Okinawa didn’t quite hit home either. I figured Okinawa was just another place in Japan somewhere. It wasn’t until I went to study on a one year scholarship to Okinawa that I understood the nature of the Okinawan diaspora—how people from such small islands, …
