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
today, just a short ferry ride from the main island, a sense, a feeling of that long gone empire remains. kumejima is a small island that has been largely untouched by the changes in the world. people farm and fish as they always did. anthony: and the war never came here? this is bunshiro nagame and yohina tomahiro. kumejima residents and friends of james. james: no, they didn t. they suffered very little damage in the war. anthony: and, uh, no military bases? no american presence? james: well, up until 72 there was an american base. anthony: there was. james: but then in 72, in the reversion, the base was taken away. anthony: now, nothing? james: only the japanese self-defense forces now. anthony: what do people do here? agriculture?
the ryukyu kingdom was not. they were more open. more multi cultural. more used to and predisposed to dealing with the outside world and its influences. today, just a short ferry ride from the main island, a sense, a feeling of that long gone empire remains. kumejima is a small island that has been largely untouched by the changes in the world. people farm and fish as they always did. anthony: and the war never came here? this is bunshiro nagame and yohina tomahiro. kumejima residents and friends of james. james: no, they didn t. they suffered very little damage in the war. anthony: and, uh, no military bases? no american presence? james: well, up until 72 there was an american base. anthony: there was.
and looking at how we measure wind speed. also on weather world as a chain of deadly cyclones hits madagascar, why climate change could put more of east africa in their path. and deluge down under parts of australia see more rain in three months than they normally do all year. i wouldn t say it was a surprise, but that s the most concerning factor that we ve gone from literally the south east of australia burning to literally the south east of australia flooding. the isle of wight, just a short ferry ride from the south coast of england, is famous for its sailing. but it wasn t seafaring weather in february when the island set a new record for england s strongest wind gust during a remarkable spell of stormy weather across the uk.