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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Pigs from the Sea Anniversary Coming Soon

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  It happened on September 27, 1948 The Governor of Hawaii declared Pigs from the Sea Day on the 70th anniversary. The Okinawan spirit of Yu...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Yonabaru Railroad Station Museum

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In Days of Old Before the Yui-rail was invented or, even dreamed of, a railroad once existed on Okinawa. The original Yonabaru St...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Two Old Favorite Shisa in Yaese Town Okinawa

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Tomori Stone Lion There are 14 of these original stone lions  (Shisa) to be found in Yaese. The most famous is the bullet s...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: Wilson in Okinawa 1917

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Seeing Hacksaw Ridge

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Not the Movie - The Terrain War movies aren't something you'll catch me watching very often. War kinda sucks. We've h...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Booklets Gathered from Okinawa Prefecture Archives

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A Wealth of Information A visit to Okinawa Prefectural Archives netted me a few pounds of booklets. These items, written in Eng...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Okinawa - The Middle of Last Century

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Images from Okinawa the 50 Years of the Postwar Era Some folks are itching to get into another war, these days so, I dug this u...
Friday, March 17, 2017

15 Images from an Okinawa Island Hop

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Not for the Faint Hearted Some people call me Mick because, my real name is too long and, another Mick was with me. He'...