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Keep your dates open! March 22-24 2019 is the next LooChoo Identity Summit. We will be returning to the University of Hawaiʻi Windward Campus, Hale Ākoakoa.  The theme for this […]

Haisai Gusūyo, Please excuse our website and blog as we are reworking our website after very busy schedules, and will be updating pages and postings.  We will continue to post […]

Last May Ukwanshin Kabudan visited the Los Angeles Okinawa community for a workshop and performance focusing on connecting back to cultural roots and history.  Although we were all the way […]

We have just returned form a very hectic but successful and once again humbling journey back to our ʻnmarijima” of our ancestors. We travelled along with members of the Young […]

Photos of the conference by photographer Myron Akana. Pi Nifweedebiru! https://www.flickr.com/photos/internet-okinawa/sets/72157663948715644

      Gusuuyo Chuuganabira! Ukwanshin now has available  our “Identity” ” sports bags.  :LooChoo: is the Okinawan pronunciation for Ryukyu, which is the name of our kingdom and inclusive […]

We started our first day with our traditional visit to Shuri and by first paying our respects at Tamaudun Royal Tombs.  We begin here to represent our ancestors and ask […]

Although we have been doing our November Okinawa Gakumun Tours for the past 6 years, this is the first time we are adding on a spring tour. Since this one […]