Vol. 42, Social process in Hawaiʻi, Uchinaanchu diaspora, memories, continuities, and constructions (2007)
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Item type: Item , Contributors(2007)Item type: Item , “Tinsagu nu Hana”: the flower of the tinsagu plant(2007) Ueunten, Wesley IwaoWesley Iwao Ueunten writes this article after previewing a film called “Japanese story” for an Asian American studies course, which he was helping to teach at the University of California, Berkeley.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Thought bytes on Uchinaanchu identity/ies(2007) Doktor, Peter ShimazakiIn this article, Peter Shimazaki Doktor discusses his position and his thoughts on the Uchinaanchu identity.Item type: Item , Ijun in Hawaiʻi: charisma is a Ryukyuan new religion overseas(2007) Reichl, ChristopherThis article introduces Ijun, a religion that was founded in Okinawa in 1972. Based on traditional Ryukyuan cosmology and creation myth, Ijun can be classified as a new religion because of the recent origins of its formal organization and its syncretism of Buddhism, Shinto and Christianity.Item type: Item , Agari-umaai: an Okinawan pilgrimage(2007) Nakasone, Ronald Y.This essay offers a contemporary perspective on the meaning and significance of the Agari-umaai pilgrimage, its specific sites, and rituals associated with Amamikyu, the original ancestor.Item type: Item , Uchinaanguchi (Okinawan language) community in Hawaiʻi: history and current developments(2007) Hijirida, Kyoko; Ikeda KeikoMany are interested in the topic of Uchinaaguchi. Their interest ranges from those merely interested in preserving the near-extinct language, to those who want to restore full usage of the language.Item type: Item , Linguistic cultural identity of Okinawans in the U.S(2007) Masahide, IshiharaThis article describes what occurred in Okinawa with regard to its local dialect, the linguistic acculturation of Nisei Okinawan Americans, and what happened after 1945 with respect to the Japanese language and the Okinawan dialect.Item type: Item , Two worlds: the Amerasian and the Okinawan(2007) Naomi, NoiriThis essay examines the relationship between Amerasians and Okinawans, focusing on two social movements by Amerasians in Okinawa. The first is an educational movement. Secondly, it looks at Denny Tamaki’s challenge as an elected councilman in Okinawa City.Item type: Item , Hawaiʻi Uchinaanchu and Okinawa: Uchinaanchu spirit and the formation of a transnational identity(2007) Makoto, ArakakiThis essay explores the identities of aggressive generations of Okinawans in Hawaii. It also moves beyond the social space of Hawaii and discusses narratives of a new relationship between Hawaii Uchinaanchu and their cohorts in Okinawa.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Women-centered diasporic memories/dancing melodies: life stories across post-war Okinawa, Hawaiʻi, U.S. military bases(2007) Chika, ShirotaThis paper focuses on the Okinawan women who migrated to Hawaii after the Battle of Okinawa. It explores the socio-historical processes in which these women and their family members experienced the Battle, the U.S. military occupation, and their migrations to Hawaii.Item type: Item , Irei no Hi 2005, 2006, 2007: a photo essay(2007)A photographic essay depicting the events of the Okinawan Prefectural holiday, Irei no Hi.Item type: Item , Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: the reversion movement(2007) Kojima, ShinjiThis paper examines the conscious efforts of the people of Okinawa to understand the present, which, in turn, has meant to understand the past. This results in a distinct form of remembering the Battle of Okinawa.Item type: Item , Population pressure as a euphemism: the rhetoric to push Okinawan emigration(2007) Amemiya, KozyThis article explores whether the Okinawan emigration to Bolivia was designed to solve the population problems, and whether it in fact provided the intended solution.Item type: Item , Japanese Latin American internment from an Okinawan perspective(2007) Ueunten, Wesley IwaoIn this article, Wesley Iwao Ueunten describes the experience of internment in American during World War II from the perspective of an Okinawan.Item type: Item , To Okinawa and back again: life stories of Okinawan Kibei Nisei in Hawaiʻi(2007) Yamazato, Kinuko MaeharaThis article discusses the Kibei Nisei as active agents in society. It explores not only how they have been able to overcome their marginality, but also how they have created the positive social changers in the Okinawan community in Hawaii.Item type: Item , “The other Japanese”: Okinawan immigrants to the Philippines, 1903-1941(2007) Kaneshiro, Edith M.This paper discusses Okinawan immigrants in the Philippines. They could not escape the consequences of modern warfare as Japan began expanding into continental Asia and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and the 1940s.Item type: Item , Hawaiʻi in the life and thought of Ifa Fuyū, father of Okinawan studies(2007) Oshiro, George M.This paper focuses its attention on one remarkable individual, Ifa Fuyu – perhaps the most important historical figure in the field of Okinawan scholarship – and explores in depth an aspect of his life experiences which intimately connect him to Hawaii.Item type: Item , Theorizing on the Okinawan diaspora(2007) Arakaki, Robert K.This essay discusses the recent theoretical debate surrounding the concepts of diaspora, diasporic flows, and the diasporic identity and the ways in which these concepts are used to frame out understanding of the Okinwan diaspora as presented in this book.