August 29, 2016 Sadao Tome, Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
The Nisei Week Japanese Festival, which started over 100 years ago with the theme of celebrating Nikkei culture and the local community, was held for the 76th time (it was cancelled for the period around World War II). The festival lasts for around one month, centered in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. The festival reached its peak at a parade held on August 14.
Selected as Grand Marshall of the parade was makeup...
May 17, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Hisao Tome in Washington, D.C.
An Okinawan team promoting the 6th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival scheduled for October made its last stop on its rounds to four cities and two countries in North America to encourage attendance for the festival. At 11 a.m. on...
April 4, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sadao Tome
Sponsored by the Okinawa Prefectural Government, exchange student 25-year-old Amy Ono studied at the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts for one year. She is an Okinawan Nisei (second-generation immigrant), born in Los Angeles. Her study...
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