Dear All Uchinanchu Living Overseas,

We are currently implementing “Let’s Study! The Worldwide Uchinanchu” Project as a preceding event to the upcoming 6th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival. This project started at the 4th Festival as “One School, One Nation Movement.”

In the 5th Festival, this project involved whole Okinawa that included 100 schools and more than 10,000 students.

As a sequence of the 5th festival, the “Let’s Study! The Worldwide Uchinanchu” Project aims to encourage Okinawan participants to think about cross-cultural understanding and multi cultural coexistence, deepen their understanding about the Uchinanchu network, and pass it on to the next generation. To do so, we facilitate exchange between Okinawans and Uchinanchu living overseas, holding events at elementary, junior high and high schools as well as universities, community halls and cultural centers wherein Okinawans can learn about cultures of Uchinanchu overseas.

We would like to encourage youths who hitherto promoted Okinawan culture abroad – such as participants in Kenpi Scholarship Program and the Junior Study Tour Program – to join the “Let’s Study! The Worldwide Uchinanchu” Project and cooperate with us.

The contents of cooperation are as follows;

1. During the festival, please promote interactive exchanges through social gatherings or lectures, upon requests from your partner school or the group of the local community or the cultural center.
2. Until the festival, please communicate with your partner by exchanging emails, letters, hand-painted drawings, or folk handicrafts and so on.

We would appreciate your kind understanding and cooperation for our project that introduces your country to the people in Okinawa including young generations, and think about the Uchina network together. We look forward to the participation of as many overseas Uchinanchu as possible in this Project.