Okinawan diaspora

Okinawan diaspora /

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The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nakasone, Ronald Y. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Ryukyuans > Foreign countries.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Emigration and immigration
Okinawa-ken (Japan) > Emigration and immigration.
Okinawa (Japon : Ken) > Émigration et immigration.
Japan > Okinawa-ken
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Table of Contents:
  • "An impossible possibility" / Ronald Y. Nakasone
  • Theorizing on the Okinawan diaspora / Robert K. Arakaki
  • Okinawa in the matrix of Pacific Ocean culture / Hokama Shūzen
  • The "Japanese" of Micronesia : Okinawans in the Nan'yō Islands / Tomiyama Ichirō
  • "The other Japanese" : Okinawan immigrants to the Philippines, 1903-1941 / Edith M. Kaneshiro
  • Japanese Latin American internment from an Okinawan perspective / Wesley Ueunten
  • Colonialism and nationalism : the view from Okinawa / Nomura Kōya
  • Eissa : identities and dances of Okinawan diasporic experiences / Shirota Chika
  • Hawaiʻi Uchinanchu and Okinawa : Uchinanchu spirit and the formation of a transnational identity / Arakaki Makoto
  • Agari-umaai : an Okinawan pilgrimage / Ronald Y. Nakasone.

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