what came next, we all know. what is not widely known is that more people died during the battle of okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. to protect mainland japan. so ever since that battle of okinawa, okinawan people say we were sort of, what do you call it sacrifice? yes. uh-huh. masaharu ota is the former governor of okinawa. he was a young conscript in the japanese imperial army. he fought hard and bravely
and hardening your meat hooks and shinning out bone chips, you can drop by a refuge where the island s most esteemed masters and their students come for what s recognized internationally as a cure for all martial arts-related ailments. alcohol. would you like a drink? i think i would like a beer and maybe a shot of something. i do have a little shot of something. that s a big snake. the sake is like the spirit of okinawa. is this sake or whiskey? this is sake. this is okinawan sake. like mainland japanese sake but then they distill it like whiskey. it becomes stronger and now it s aged. it s been in here with the snake maybe three years. all the essence of the snake has gone into the alcohol. there seems to be a conflict of interest here.
fights and not enough time growing sugarcane. like cus d amato in the young tyson, their handlers raise these beefs from calves. training them, conditioning them to be monsters in the ring in the other. yeah. does one wager on this? i guess the official answer would be that gambling s illegal in japan, but intermission. time for a corn dog, some funnel cake, curly fries? no. better. much better. yakitori. yes, they have that. but when in okinawa, do as the okinawans do. yakisoba. start with pork belly as one
presenting japan 300 miles way. on april 1st, 1945, a u.s. invasion fleet of nearly 1,500 ships, a landing force of 182,000 people, that s 75,000 more than normandy, approached okinawa. what came next was what okinawans called a typhoon of steel. having island hopped across the pacific, allied forces saw okinawa as a key base for fleet anchorage, troop staging and air operations for the final push into the japanese mainland and victory. the fighting was brutal for both sides. the cost in lives and resources for the allied forces was tremendous. and when it was over, military planners looked at the mainland, looked at what okinawa had cost them, and projected even more appalling losses.
still another american invasion in the pacific. the objective is okinawa, one of the ring of island fortresses presenting japan 300 miles way. on april 1st, 1945, a u.s. invasion fleet of nearly 1,500 ships, a landing force of 182,000 people, that s 75,000 more than normandy, approached okinawa. what came next was what okinawans called a typhoon of steel. having island hopped across the pacific, allied forces saw okinawa as a key base for fleet anchorage, troop staging and air operations for the final push into the japanese mainland and victory. the fighting was brutal for both sides. the cost in lives and resources for the allied forces was tremendous.