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Many Hawai‘i Uchinānchu (Okinawan persons) have visited their ancestral homeland, but relatively few are fortunate to stay for an extended period of time to experience …
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Earlier this year, I had the honour of presenting Shihan Kei Tsumura, founder of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) Karate Club in Toronto with …
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Art Ishii began his judo training in 1954 at Hollywood Judo Dojo in Los Angeles, CA, under the direction of senseis Takashi Kikuchi, Frank Emi, …
Read Part 2 >> Working at the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo At the beginning of the revolution in 1959, he recalls, “I had already finished high school, …
Read Part 1 >> All Issei to a maximum security prison “After Pearl Harbor, the newspapers from the U.S. wrote about how the Japanese were ‘cruel people’. …
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Japanese martial arts such as judo and kendo have a strong presence in the Japanese American community. As a youngster, my dad took me to …
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Conheceu as artes marciais por meio de seu pai que praticava judo e começou a treinar com 10 anos de idade. Conquistou o diploma de …
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沖縄の米軍基地内で食のイベント企画 ロサンゼルスで沖縄を含む日本からの食品輸入事業に携わる当銘由洋さんに初めて会ったのは、2005年頃だったと思う…
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劉衛流パンアメリカン・チーフインストラクター 新城友弘さん沖縄生まれの新一世沖縄空手の一流派である劉衛流 (りゅうえいりゅう)。1979年から現在ま…
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