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An Introduction (Pinned)
But first, a meme. The image (a meme) reads: When Twitter was the place all of us with similar interests would gather, we often saw the same complaints (very justified IMHO) whenever an anime, TV show, or movie about Okinawa (or filmed in Okinawa) was released. In reaction to this, a prominent Okinawan stage (Okinawa…
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YU-KA on The First Take (YouTube)
Singer-songwriter YU-KA continues her dominance on the new music scene with an appearance on the prestigious YouTube channel The First Take! YU-KA performs her song “Hoshizukiyo (Starry Night)“. Episode 330 welcomes YU-KA, a singer-songwriter fluent in both Japanese and English, to THE FIRST TAKE for the first time. She will sing “Starry Night,” a song…
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i-Dushi’s “Kaanaa” Becomes “Kanae” as a Solo Artist
One of our favorite Okinawan pop duos, i-Dushi, went on hiatus at the end of last year after a tumultuous two years due to the pandemic and one of the things the artist formerly known as Kaanaa did was change her name to Kanae (which is her real name) to begin life as a solo…
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Two Okinawan Films at the HIFF 2023 Fall Festival!
The 2023 fall Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) will screen two films from Okinawa. The first one is “This Land is Your Land (Shima ni Kaeru)” directed by Mitake Naoto and stars the most famous male actor from Okinawa, Shogen. Two actors I’m interested in seeing from this film are Miyara Shinobu (one of the…
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