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i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la this is okinawa. just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answered in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it, chempuru, something mixed. borrowed from all over, served up for anyone to eat. maybe you re more familiar with the name, okinawa, from this, as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of
the second world war. how horrifying? for the ally, there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed or missing in action. over nearly three months of fighting. more than 100,000 japanese soldiers and okinawan conscripts were killed defending the island. civilians were stuck in the middle of the two armies and got crushed. no one will know for sure, but historians estimate 150,000 men, women, and children lost their lives during the battle. what most don t know is that okinawa had only become japan fairly recently. that to a great extent okinawans didn t even consider themselves really japanese or vice versa. that okinawans and japanese considered themselves to be different ethnicities, spoke two different languages and culturally, culinarily, and many other ways looked in different
on the eastern coast of okinawa the u.s. military came ashore in 1945 and to okinawans, it must seem like they never left. today, there are roughly 30,000 troops stationed on the island. put that many americans in a place, especially young, mostly male americans, many of them homesick, and it tends to change the environment. kintown just outside of naha right by camp hansen, one of the larger bases. fight inch by inch to conquer this island. kim is a small slice of
pickled pigs ears, and baked yam. i watch a lot of mixed martial arts. i watch a lot of jujitsu. my daughter trains. mostly jujitsu, but some standup. some of the most exciting fighters that i ve seen lately who really show the most heart are women. is there is there a future for women in karate? okinawa yeah, yeah. he has a female student here tonight. this is yaya. tony is asking what s the future for women in karate? when i first started karate,