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Nozomi Nakaganeku

@ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social
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🌺 (Uchinaanchu, Myaaku) 🖊📚 Writer, reader and educator 📔 Researching (de)militarization, Indigenous stories, bones and garden seeds 🌊🏝🩵 Heart is in Lūchū/Okinawa

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Nozomi Nakaganeku @ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Published on yuntaku as Indigenous Okinawan method in the new issue of NAIS.
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Nozomi Nakaganeku @ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
しけいぬウチナアンチュウぬ日ぐすぅじさびら。 Shikee nu Uchinaanchu nu hi Gusuujisabira. Happy World Uchinanchu Day. 💖🌏🏝🌊☀️
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Jon Mitchell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ジョン・ミッチェル @jonmitchell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I have the right to know the contamination status of my own land." The English version of my latest article about the environmental impact of military operations in Okinawa is now online at @okinawatimes.co.jp. Please take a look. www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1...
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US Army: 2017 helicopter crash at northern Okinawa farm contaminated soil with radioactive, other hazardous substances | Jon Mitchell Investigates | 沖縄タイムス+プラス
On 11 October 2017, a US Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter made an emergency landing and caught fire at a farm in Higashi Village, Okinawa Prefecture. Three days later, the US military announced “radioac...
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Nozomi Nakaganeku @ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
1. Been thinking lately about the aesthetics of militarism and the military origins of fashion apparel. As Teresia Teaiwa shows, the bikini emerges out of the history of nuclear bombing of Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands: www.jstor.org/stable/23701...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...
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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
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Nozomi Nakaganeku @ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
PFAS countermeasure costs could be excluded from natnl subsidy next year, forcing Okinawa prefectural govt to bear ¥1.6 billion. Okinawan water bills have already increased, as Japan covers only 2/3. This petition demands GOJ keep covering the costs as a national responsibility. chng.it/DvWSZPbSxz
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Tori @toguchi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Written by Haley Harrison. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.
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These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back.
Once worn by nearly every Ryukyuan woman, these intricate hand tattoos were outlawed for over a century.
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Nozomi Nakaganeku @ns-nakaganeku.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Haitai gusuyoo. Finally made a Bsky account. Mostly here for Okinawan community and scholarly connections.
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