Comments on: New UH Manoa center focuses on Okinawa

By: Cheryl Ernst

Cheryl Ernst — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:21:10 +0000

To celebrate Tsuruko Nakasone's 100th birthday and in honor of her late husband Matsuro, her family has established an endowed fund to provide students with the opportunity to travel outside of Hawaiʻi to study or undertake research in Okinawa-related subjects. It is the center’s second endowed gift, the first from a family. Read more.

By: helen rauer

helen rauer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:33:23 +0000

I am looking for someone who would be interested in a 7 year old Okinawan girl and her mother who were rescued when their fishing boat was topedoed durint the WWII. They were brought to Sand Island as prisoners and repretriated back to Okinawa.
She married a local boy later when he served in the army. He took her LA where worked at the post office. Upon his retirement, he returned to Hawaii. She is presently at Maluhia Hospital. He lives in senior housing on Queen Street.

By: Cheryl Ernst

Cheryl Ernst — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:37:51 +0000

The Center for Okinawan Studies website it up! Check it out at
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/okinawa/

Cheryl Ernst

By: Don Matsuda

Don Matsuda — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:34:55 +0000

Thanks, thanks, thanks to all of you. I am an 85 year old man who was torn away his California roots along with a 100,000 other Japanese and Okinawans. Imagine my feelings when I happened by chance see and hear Okinawan performers here in Honolulu. Tears filled my eyes. “Nada so so!”

And thanks for all the scholarly publications. All I could read as a kid in Los Angeles was Basil Hall Chamberlin and a seafaring tale by some sailor.

Mahalo Deebiru

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:25:02 +0000

Okinawa today is so modern with concrete buildings and

American service personnel. Why don’t the Americans let

Okinawans run their own country.

By: Celeste Miyashiro

Celeste Miyashiro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:36:41 +0000

I enjoyed reading about this program. Living in Virginia, I have often told people that I am half Okinawan and received responses like quizzical looks and also statements that I should just say that I am Japanese. This seems especially true when it comes from other Asian Americans I have met up here. I was delighted to read this article. Thank you for posting. Also, favor please, are there any books I can buy that would teach my daughter about being Okinawan? She is a very driven six year old and probably reads at the third grade level. Thanks!