On Global Uchinanchu Day, one group wants Okinawa to establish a global Uchinanchu center in time for the 2022 global Uchinanchu festival
The Global Uchinanchu Center Establishment Support Committee joint representatives (from right-to-left) Takeshi Miki, Choko Takayama, and Seishin Oyama promoting their idea for a Global Uchinanchu Center. October 29, at the Okinawa Prefectural Office’s Press Club
October 30, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
October 30 is “Global Uchinanchu Day.” The Global Uchinanchu Center Establishment Support Committee (Choko Takayama, Takeshi Miki, and Seishin Oyama, joint representatives), which is looking to establish a location where Uchinanchu from all over the world can connect, provisionally titled the Global Uchinanchu Center, held a press conference at the Okinawa Prefectural Office’s Press Club October 29, where they announced the publication of a PR brochure meant to help build momentum for the center. They are petitioning the Okinawan government to start work on the center in time for the 2022 Global Uchinanchu Festival.
The center will function as a base of operations for the annual Global Uchinanchu Festival as well as support, strengthen, and expand networking abilities for the Uchinanchu diaspora, and will also serve a purpose as a visitor center. They also hope to digitize the emigrant name registry, allowing them to collect and display data on Okinawans who had emigrated, and allow people of Okinawan ancestry to discover their roots. They are also thinking to utilize the center for study-abroad and business purposes.
Joint representative Miki said, “2022 will mark 50 years since the reversion [of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control]. We would like to see Okinawa undertake things like new development programs and other projects to mark this 50-year anniversary.”
(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)
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