Lecturer: Fujinami Kai (Kanto Gakuin University full-time lecturer)

The Tsurumi district of Yokohama developed as the core area of the Keihin Industrial Zone. Many people with Okinawan roots have lived in this area since before the war, and in 2022, it was taken up as a setting in NHK morning TV series novels. But what kind of people are the “people of Okinawan roots living in Tsurumi”? That life isn't something that can get tangled up in one fell swoop. As they each follow a different route (route), they experience the roots (roots) of Okinawa in their own forms, and express that experience in various forms in their lives. In this report, I would like to examine the social factors that create these differences while showing the diversity of the lives of “people of Okinawan roots living in Tsurumi” based on their respective life histories.

Presenter profile
Full-time lecturer at Kanto Gakuin University Faculty of Sociology. He specializes in sociology and immigration/ethnicity studies. His main books and papers include “Wow! Uchinanchu from around the world! ——The trajectory of young people from overseas prefectures” (co-author, Ryukyu Shimpo (Newspaper publisher), 2022), “Returning Immigrants and World Uchinanchu Day” (Japan Migration Society “Immigration Research Annual Report”, 2022), “The World's Uchinanchu” and Cross-Border Networks - Focusing on Okinawa Prefecture's Policies” (Immigration Policy Research, 2022), etc.

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