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Okinawans in Hawaii (Okinawan: ハワイ沖縄人, romanized: Hawai uchinānchu) number between 45,000 to 50,000 people, or 3% of the U.S. state's total population. [ 2 ] History
Okinawans in Hawaii tend to view themselves as a distinct group from the Japanese in Hawaii. [5] The Center for Okinawan Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi (Mānoa) estimates that the Okinawan community numbers anywhere between 45,000-50,000 people, or 3% of Hawaii’s population. [6]
Topographic map of Okinawa Island. Okinawa is the fifth largest island of Japan. The island has an area of 1,206.99 square kilometers (466.02 sq mi). The coastline is 476 kilometers (296 mi) long. [36] The straight-line distance is about 106.6 kilometers (66.2 mi) from north to south. [37] Okinawa is in the northeastern end of Okinawa Prefecture.
Ethnic Studies Oral History Project and United Okinawan Association of Hawaii. Uchinanchu: A History of Okinawans in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1981. Kerr, George. Okinawa: History of an Island People. Tokyo: Charles Tuttle Company, 2000. Nakasone, Ronald Y. (2002). Okinawan Diaspora. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0 ...
The Amami Islanders are also slightly more similar to the mainland population than the Okinawa Islanders. An autosomal DNA analysis from Okinawan samples concluded that they are most closely related to other Japanese and East Asian contemporary populations, sharing on average 80% admixture with mainland Japanese and 19% admixture with Chinese ...
The HUOA was founded in 1951 under the name “United Okinawan Association of Hawaii” and was renamed to its current title in 1995. [3]As a result of World War II, Okinawa was severely damaged, with much of its infrastructure and a third of its population perishing. [4]
King Kamehameha I of Hawaii. Economic and demographic factors in the 18th to 19th centuries reshaped the Kingdom of Hawaii.With unfamiliar diseases such as bubonic plague, leprosy, yellow fever, declining fertility, high infant mortality, infanticide, the introduction of alcohol, and emigration off the islands or to larger cities for trade jobs, the Native Hawaiian population fell from around ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.