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Searching for Oneself Through Music: Writing a Thesis on Okinawan Rock Music ■ Second-Generation Okinawan Assistant Professor Sawada (31) of Tokyo University of the Arts Plays Folk Songs on the Piano: "I Was Deeply Moved by the Footsteps of My ancestors."

Until high school, he was devoted to Western classical piano, but for his university graduation thesis, he made a complete change and chose Okinawan rock. He learned the sanshin in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, where many Okinawans live, and studied abroad in Hawaii, where he discovered the joy of playing Okinawan folk songs on the piano. Seiya Sawada (31), a second-generation Okinawan living in Chiba Prefecture and an educational research assistant a…
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Until high school, he was devoted to Western classical piano, but for his university graduation thesis, he made a complete change and chose Okinawan rock. He learned the sanshin in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, where many Okinawans live, and studied abroad in Hawaii, where he discovered the joy of playing Okinawan folk songs on the piano. Seiya Sawada (31), a second-generation Okinawan living in Chiba Prefecture and an educational research assistant a…

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沖縄タイムス+プラス broke the news in on Saturday, January 31, 2026.
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