haitai (hello), hajichā (hajichi practitioner) here.

to clarify, the practice was banned by the Japanese as an attempt to destroy us. I am the first to have hajichi in my family in at least five generations, possibly more but my family lineage and history was heavily wiped out during the battle of okinawa

that first picture? its staged. it was taken after the ban, and if you were caught giving hajichi you would be imprisoned.

the other pictures are an attempt to preserve the culture—notice how the hands are aged.

those drawings? done by a non-okinawan anthropologist who called the practice barbaric, but his work contains some of the only references we have left.

okinawans are not japanese. okinawan isn’t even what we’re really called, but we’re forced to use what name people recognize. we are the indigenous population of loo choo (sometimes seen as ryukyu but that’s the japanese pronunciation)

very long story made very short, japan kidnapped our king, illegally annexed the kingdom, then proceeded to destroy us by banning and dismantling our entire culture, from language to spirituality to hajichi and more. we are still treated as second/third class citizens today.

we’re still being killed off, both literally and culturally, by both japan and the united states.

nifē dēbiru (thank you)

for those interested in learning more, please contact me privately. due to the sacredness of this practice and its vulnerability to exploitation, I prefer not to discuss the details of hajichi publicly.

The United States government is literally disappearing people to a gulag with no due process and yet it's the stock market crash that has finally pissed conservatives off.