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Exterior of the Nishio Gakuin a \"finishing school\" for women in Nanjo City on the Okinawan mainland.   2. Various of students shown how to put on kimonos by Nishio Yaeko, finishing school...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNanjo City, Okinawa - 12th September 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of the Nishio Gakuin a \"finishing school\" for women in Nanjo City on the Okinawan mainland.   \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of students shown how to put on kimonos by Nishio Yaeko, finishing school head\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Nishio Yaeko current head and founder of the school: \u003cbr/\u003e\"As the world has opened up to Japanese people a sense of Japanese identity has been diminished and I felt that the elements that make up this identity were not being effectively communicated to young people.  \u003cbr/\u003eSo what I wanted to do was to educate young women as Japanese people, as Japanese people born in Okinawa and as future mothers.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of the UNESCO World Heritage site Seifa-Utaki Shrine. \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Nishio Yaeko \u003cbr/\u003e\"At the back of the school there is the  Seifa-Utaki Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  It is said that it is the home of female deities and so I thought that this would be an appropriate place for women to study earnestly and I decided to locate the school here.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e8 . Various of a cooking class including purple beni imo, a sweet potato that is deep fried and served as a dessert. \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Nishio Yaeko, current head and founder of the school: \u003cbr/\u003e\"When you eat something that tastes good you express gratitude for the food that you have eaten in Okinawa with the expression 'inuchi gusuri narimashita'.  It doesn't simply mean that the food that you have eaten was good, it means that the food that you have eaten tasted good it also means that it was good for your health. In Okinawa food is thought of having medicinal value.\"    \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up slicing up yams. \u003cbr/\u003e10. Zoom in sliced pigs ears. \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up cutting kelp (seaweed). \u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of cooking class / set up of Arazaki Yuki, student\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Arazaki Yuki, student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I had no idea that food was so important to Ryuku culture. The fact that the food that we eat now comes from a specific history is something that I had never thought of despite eating many forms of Ryuku cuisine at home.  That part of the course has really made an impression on me.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of the meal that the students prepared and the students eating lunch. \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Nishio Yaeko,  current head and founder of the school: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Regarding Japanese (as opposed to specifically Okinawan culture) the tea ceremony is central to the curriculum.  Learning the tea ceremony means that automatically other essential elements of Japanese culture will be included.  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of students practising the tea ceremony. \u003cbr/\u003e17. Set up of Matsuzawa Tomoko, student\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mastuzawa Tomoko, student: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Usually you would go and take a class in flower arrangement or the tea ceremony for example but if you are learning the arts one by one in this way it is both expensive and it takes a great deal of time to progress.  If you come here you can learn many disciplines at once.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of students learning the tea ceremony. \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Nishio Yaeko, current head and founder of the school: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I really believe that men and women are equal, equal as human beings. I also believe there are characteristics peculiar to being female that require women to be bigger, kinder and more beautiful than men.  I want to give students a strong education, an education that is strong enough for them to be able to raise men.\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Wideshot students learning the tea ceremony\u003cbr/\u003eModern Japan is much influenced by western cultures and like most modern economies many young Japanese women pursue careers away from the home.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut as a result of this equality of the sexes traditional home crafts like cooking and the tea ceremony are no longer passed on from generation to generation and thus a little bit of Japanese culture is being lost. \u003cbr/\u003eNow one woman has opened a 'finishing school' for young ladies to educate them in traditional behaviour and skills. \u003cbr/\u003eDressing in a kimono and get the knots just right is a complex skill and one that is being lost in modern Japan where western fashions prevail. \u003cbr/\u003eNishio Yaeko founded the Nishio Gakuin school thirteen years ago to teach young ladies what she believes are the lost arts of womanhood. \u003cbr/\u003eLocated in Nanjo City on the largest of the Okinawa islands, the Nishio Gakuin, describes itself as a \"finishing school for young women.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe private school has eight students between the ages of 20-34 enrolled on the main curriculum.  \u003cbr/\u003eNishio, explains that what she saw as a diminished sense of cultural identity among young people was her main reason for founding the school and that the primary aims of the curriculum are to educate future mothers and wives. \u003cbr/\u003eThe school is located close to the Seifa- Utaki Shrine, the most sacred site in Okinawa that was designated a UNESCO cultural heritage site in 2003. \u003cbr/\u003eMost Ryukyu deities are female and one feature of Ryukyu religion is the belief in the spiritual superiority of women over men. \u003cbr/\u003eNishio, originally from Naha (Okinawa's capital city) explains why she felt that the chosen site would be an appropriate place to locate the school.  \u003cbr/\u003eOkinawan cuisine is distinctive from cuisine in other parts of Japan and a practical and theoretical knowledge of this element of Okinawan culture is a cornerstone of the curriculum.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe region is renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants and diet is characterised by low fat, low salt produce and a wide array of herbaceous plant foods and seaweed.  \u003cbr/\u003eNishio explains how Okinawan culture has traditionally regarded food as having medicinal value.  \u003cbr/\u003eStudents are required to prepare meals for each other daily and the curriculum also includes identifying and collecting plant foods both in the forests and on the sea shore. \u003cbr/\u003eArazaki Yuki is a second year undergraduate taking a degree course in economics at Ryuku University and has taken a year out to study at the Nishio Gakuin.  \u003cbr/\u003eShe explains how the part of the curriculum focusing on cuisine has impressed her.   \u003cbr/\u003eIf Ryukyu cuisine is one of the main ways that the school introduces students to Okinawan culture, the tea ceremony, is the main route through which the school 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