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UYEHARA RESEARCH CENTER

Okinawan language (Uchina guchi) and culture is vastly different from that of mainland Japan. Ryukyu, as Okinawa is known, is comprised of dozens of islands some of which have unique cultures of their own. Our Uyehara family is from Yonabaru, a city on the southern beaches of Okinawa.

General Research
Hawaii United Okinawan Association (HUAO)
Okinawan Genealogical Society of Hawaii
Okinawa Prefecture
Rootsweb: Okinawa-Ken
Okinawa.com

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History and Culture
Ryukyu Cultural Archives Incredible database of history, culture, emigration
The Contemporary Okinawa Website: History & culture. Impressive document archive
Okinawa Digital Archives: Cultural resources in images and photographs, speech and text. Impressive site!
Okinawa Shisa Travelogue Everything you wanted to know about the Shisa (Okinawan Lion)
The Battle of Okinawa 50 Years Later: Two Veterans, Two Perspectives by Karleen Chinen
Okinawa Slams History Text Rewrite: Assembly tells state to retract order to downplay mass suicides
Okinawans Protest Japan's Plan to Revise Bitter Chapter of World War II by Norimitsu Onishi
National Park Service: Marines in World War II Commemorative Series

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Vital & Cemetery Records
The International Cemetery of Tomari Burial place for foreigners who died in the Ryukyu Islands
Embassy of the U.S. in Japan Instructions for obtaining foreign & non-foreign vital records. Great resource.

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