Yuko Yamauchi
Yuko Yamauchi é uma nissei americana de ascendência de Okinawa. Seus pais são da parte sul da ilha de Okinawa - especificamente Itoman e Kochinda. Atualmente ela é gerente de escritório da Okinawa Association of America, Inc. (OAA), com sede em Gardena, CA.
Atualizado em abril de 2008
Stories from This Author
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, …
