fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world 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 anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but 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 allies there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed, or missing in action, over nearly three months of fighting.
anthony: what does it mean to be strong? it implies hardness, inflexibility. okinawa is a place with a fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world 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 anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but 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 allies there were more than
place, especially young, mostly male americans, many of them homesick, and it tends to change the environment. kin town, just outside of naha, right by camp hansen, one of the larger bases. archival newscaster: the yanks have fought inch by inch to conquer this island. anthony: kin is a small slice of americana, both the mainstream america and its dark underbelly. the okinawans have made the kind of adjustments that people do when saddled with neighbors like thousands of marines, and sometime in the 80s adjusted food as we knew it to this. a mutant classic. taco rice. waitress: taco and rice, that s taco rice. anthony: wow. vivian: wow, it s big. anthony: is this chili sauce
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, culinary, and in many other ways, looked in different directions. yet, okinawans were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice, and they did. that s not just ancient history. it informs the present still. okinawa is the largest of over 100 islands making up the ryukyu island chain. it s just over 300 miles from the mainland but worlds apart. okinawa is different.
CNMI officials and Pacific Development Inc. hosted a dinner for 37 Micronesian Repatriation Association of Okinawa and Okinawan Prefectural Assembly members at the Carolinian Affairs Office pavilion on Thursday night.