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Preserving Island Folk Songs for Future Generations: Niizato's Recording Tapes Digitized

A report meeting was held in Haebaru town on the 10th to commemorate the digitization of audio tapes containing dialects and folk songs from the islands stretching from Amami to Yaeyama. The audio tapes, recorded over a 50-year period by Yukiaki Niizato (83), a former professor at Meio University, were digitized last year by the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.
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A report meeting was held in Haebaru town on the 10th to commemorate the digitization of audio tapes containing dialects and folk songs from the islands stretching from Amami to Yaeyama. The audio tapes, recorded over a 50-year period by Yukiaki Niizato (83), a former professor at Meio University, were digitized last year by the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.

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沖縄タイムス+プラス broke the news in on Thursday, March 12, 2026.
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