HAKA GLOBAL. SERIES 1. JAPAN

Haka Global. S1. Japan

I tēnei wiki kei Tokyo, Japan a Mātai. Ka haere ia ki te tūtaki atu i te kapa Ngā Hau e Whā. Ka hui tahi rātou ki ‘Cookie time’ ka kotahi atu ki te New Zealand Embassy. He wāhi hui mō rātou. Ka kōrero ia kia Emily Ruane nō Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī, Muriwhenua. Kua rua tekau mā rua ngā tau o Nga Hau e Wha. Kua haere rātou ki Taiwai, The Philippine’s, Korea. Ko Joel Bhana, nō Waikato, Tainui, Indian, kua noho ia ki reira mō ngā tau tekau mā whā. Kāore ia i te mōhio ki te mahi kapa haka ki Aotearoa, e ngākaunui ana ia ki ngā mahi ināianei.  

Emily is an English Language teacher, at home she was a primary school teacher, she was raised in Te Kao, a small settlement, when she first came to Tokyo it was a shock, millions and millions of people, the train stations, the diaries where you can do everything there, pay bills, get your money. She talks about the politeness of the people.  Joel Bhana is a Pilates Instructor who works with Japanese people. His dad is Indian his mother is Māori and he’s married to a Japanese woman. Paul Maoate nō Rarotonga, Manihiki, Cook Islands is one of the original members of Ngā Hau e Whā and has married a Japanese woman and has been married nineteen years. Paul speaks about the Ainu people and the similarities between both cultures. Mātai speaks with Akemi Shimada a Ainu Leader and Ngaroma Riley nō Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri who explains that Akemi came to Aotearoa in 2009 was part of a programme, they don’t have a lot of recognition as a people.