The 5th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival gives you an opportunity to take part in the “Let’s study! The Worldwide Uchinanchu Project.” Through exchanges, why not learn about the history of Okinawan immigrants to overseas, as well as the worldwide network of these people, Uchinanchu?

A variety of helpful goods have been prepared for those willing to participate in the Let’s study! The Worldwide Uchinanchu Project. If you have any questions, such as what kind of classes and/or exchanges you can hold, please feel free to contact us.

  • Teaching materials to study Uchinanchu immigrants and multi-cultural coexistence
  • Various goods from around the world, including ethnic costumes and musical instruments (You can rent them.)
  • Classes by lecturers to be given at your preferred sites.
  • Exchanges with Okinawa people living overseas.


Request for Cooperation toward the Fifth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Pre-Event: "Let's study! World Uchinanchu" program

Thank you very much for your continuous cooperation and support toward the international exchange and cooperation projects conducted by Okinawa Prefecture.

The Fifth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Executive Committee is currently implementing the “Learn About Uchinanchu Around the World!” program as a pre-event for the upcoming festival.

This program was brought out under the title of “One School One Country” program in the fourth festival which was spread across the prefecture involving one hundred schools with more than ten thousand students.

In the coming festival, “Learn About Uchinanchu Around the World!” program aims to encourage students of primary schools, junior high schools and high schools in Okinawa to increase their awareness of international understanding and the Uchina-network. Students will learn about other nation/ state’s culture, language, food and history through exchanges with the Uchinanchus living overseas.

We hope that all past participants of the programs such as Prefectural-Funded International Student Program, Junior Study Tour and Host Family Bank will be actively engaged with “Learn About Uchinanchu Around the World!” since “Passing on “the Uchina Network” and “the Uchina Identity” to the next generation” is especially established as one of the fundamental principles of the Fifth Festival. (Specific details in regards to our cooperation request are stated at the end of this letter.)

We would appreciate your kind understanding and cooperation from as many overseas Uchinanchus as possible.

If you could cooperate in this program, please fill out the questionnaire attached and send it back to us at the festival committee office by email or fax by 23th March 2011.

● Qualification for Participation

(1) One must be an Uchinanchu living in the country or state requested by a school in Okinawa.

(2) One must be able to participate in the main festival, which is going to be held on 13th October 2011.

● Cooperation Outline

(1) As methods of exchange up until the festival, one and his/ her exchange partner must conduct exchanges in the form of exchanging emails, letters, hand-drawn pictures and traditional crafts etc.

(2) During the festival, one must visit his/her partner school in Okinawa, and promote interactive exchanges through social gatherings and lecture presentations.

● Questionnaire Submission

The Fifth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Executive Committee
E-mail: ijikouyo@pref.okinawa.lg.jp
Fax: ＋81-98-866-2328

Yours sincerely,
Yoshiro SEGAWA
Director of the Fifth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Committee Office

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