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History Committee

Chairperson: Sadao Tome

There are three significant accomplishments in the 91-year-old OAA history.

1. Publishing of the “HISTORY OF THE OKINAWANS IN NORTH AMERICA” in 1980. The History Committee began compiling this 600 pages volume on the Okinawan Community in 1968. The late Shingi Nakamura chaired the History Committee until 1978 and subsequently the committee was co-chaired by the late Shinsei Kouchi, the late Shigemori Tamaki, and Tsugio Miyashiro with the late Takashi Higa as secretary for the Japanese language version. Ben Kobashigawa, a professor at San Francisco State University, translated the book into English.

Japanese $ 20.00
 English $ 25.00

Available for purchase at: Okinawa Association of America Center 16500 South Western Avenue, #103 Gardena, California 90247 E-mail: mensore@earthlink.net

2. Purchasing of the Okinawa Association of America’s new building in Gardena in 1999, with its establishment as a corporate and activity center. This is the most important accomplishment in the history of the Okinawa Association of America. We have just celebrated our one-year anniversary in August, 2000, and have purchased two adjacent buildings recently. Please join us in our fundraising pledge drive in the near future! (Please see more details about our new buildings in the Building Committee page)

3. Publishing of the Okinawa Association of America website. With this new information technology, members and viewers can find out about the Okinawa Association of America’s history, information about the different committees, Board of Directors, Officers, Chairpersons, Calendar of Events, Okinawans across the U.S. and around the world.

Okinawa Association of America Website Officers

Sadao Tome: Director, Initiated Leader
Ryan Yokota: Designer, Manager, and Operator for the Server
Vicky Oshiro: Procured the Website Name
Jeff and Helene Shimane: Layout
Allyson Nakamoto: Coordinator
Special Thanks to the Little Tokyo Service Center for Web-Hosting Services
Website Editors are mostly the Committee Chairpersons. Dr. Shingi Kuniyoshi and Mrs. Aiko Tokunaga especially contributed in the editing.

 


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