When Malia Higa replied, “Masagisanu tomato yaibin yatai” (Your tomatoes look tasty), those around her looked a little surprised because an “American” spoke in the Okinawan dialect.

Tida means the sun in Okinawan dialect in Japan. In the audio, Ms Hawkins explains how TIDA started and talks about her life in Perth. TIDA will perform for a Lunar New Year event this month in ...

"We were at the Mabuni Hills standing there with our baggage, when a young [Japanese] man, probably a soldier, said to us in the Okinawan dialect, 'We don't have food. We should surrender and turn ...

not knowing the language,” Nakachi-Kuba said. According to the University of Hawaii Center for Okinawan Studies, the dream for most immigrants had been to earn a better living in Hawaii and ...