He also attributes this to the vibrant Okinawan community here in Hawaii as clearly exhibited at the annual Uchinanchu Festival, where the dance and pageantry of the Okinawan people are alive and ...

While the culture of Okinawa continues to thrive in Hawaii, the native language of the southern islands of Japan is on the ...

He identifies himself with Okinawa and feels he has always been an Uchinanchu (Okinawan) wherever he may be. When it was ruled as a tributary state of imperial China, the Ryukyu Kingdom became a ...