Robert Kajiwara
Pro-China American activist
Robert Kajiwara is an Okinawan-American political activist residing in Hawaii. He supports the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, the Ryukyu independence movement, and the Chinese government's policies toward the Uyghurs and Tibetans.
Name and background
He is sometimes referred to as Robert Kajiwara or Rob Kajiwara. His Okinawan name is Higa Takamasa (比嘉孝昌), and his Chinese name is Wei Xiaochang (魏孝昌). He is a fourth-generation Ryukyuan American. He self-identifies as a distinctive Chinese person. He hails from Waipahu, Hawaii. The maternal side of his family is from Nakagusuku, Okinawa Prefecture. Kajiwara has stated that his grandparents are of Ainu descent, and that his paternal great-grandmother was enslaved in Africa, later gaining freedom in Latin America. Her descendants moved to California and subsequently to Hawaii.
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