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When Worlds Collide Cycling and Music
Pro cycling team Bahrain Victorious was recently in Japan for the Japan Cup Cycle Road Race in Utsunomiya and for their reception singer-songwriter Ishigaki Yu (from Yanawaraba) performed! As you may know we’re big time cycling fans and our favorite road race cyclist is the 🐐 (G.O.A.T.) Arashiro Yukiya who is on the Bahrain team.…
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Miura Daichi Participates in Sada Masashi Tribute Album
Released on 10/25 is the tribute album “Minna no Sada” to Japanese folk singer Sada Masashi and Miura Daichi is one of the artists featured on it! Daichi covers the song “Kaze in Tatsu Raion (The Lion Standing in the Wind)”. Speaking of new releases, Daichi announced that his next album, “OVER”, his first original…
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MONGOL800 Tribute Album 800TRIBUTE
Released on 10/25 (so many amazing released on this day!) is a tribute album for our favorite punk rock band MONGOL800. The new album is called “800TRIBUTE-champloo is the BEST!!2-“ and has a total of 9 tracks featuring Okinawan artists Awich and Mitsushima Hikari (we love that she returned to being a singer!). As far…
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Canae (i-Dushi) Opens a New Web Store
Singer-songwriter Canae from i-Dushi announces her own online store and the name is so cute! Canasando is a play on the Okinawan word kanasando using her first name Cana and sando. We also noticed that for Kanae she’s using a C instead of a K which is in line with what she did during her…
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Awich. The Union. New Album is Out!
Wow. She released the amazing “Queendom” just last year and here is Awich with a brand new album “THE UNION“! It was released last night and we’ve been listening to it non-stop. One song that’s missing that we thought she would include is her remix of MONGOL800’s “Ryukyu Aika” (it can be found on her…
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The Weird Al of Okinawa? Tohme Yoshiaki
What can we say about Tohme Yoshiaki that’s better seen by watching his YouTube parody videos that are done in Uchinaaguchi. Here’s a couple that are very fun. But don’t let the parody videos and his food-filled Instagram fool you as his real occupation is a Ryukyu traditional arts performer (琉球伝統芸能実演家) and he’s an actor…
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Our Voices Through Rapper Awich
If you’re a new reader of Karakui, you may think it’s mainly a blog about Awich (and YU-KA) because of how often we post about her. It’s just that this is how BIG she’s become and it’s very much deserved. Being a female rapper in Okinawa and Japan and becoming famous enough to command a…
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Miyagi Hiroya Leads the Orix Buffaloes to the Japan Series! (Baseball)
The Orix Buffaloes (I knew them as the Blue Wave!) made it the the Japan Series (like USA’s World Series) with a great effort from Okinawan pitcher Miyagi Hiroya (#13) and winning the Pacific League Climax Series versus the Lotte Marines. They go on to challenge Hanshin Tigers. By the way, the Orix Buffaloes has…
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Orion Beer’s Shokunin for Overseas Market?
So apparently Orion Beer released a new item for the overseas market called Shokunin with a really cute can design. Has anyone seen it yet? It’s a wheat beer with the wheat coming from Okinawa and it can only be purchased online in Okinawa as it’s not being sold at restaurants and stores in Japan.
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