Another reason for the non-installation of a rail system here is that Okinawa is a transmarine island, separated from mainland Japan. |
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The streets of Okinawa were shadowed by the cloak of twilight and wrapped in a thin fog. |
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According to respected gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, the most common cooking fat used traditionally in Okinawa is lard. |
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To be on the Okinawa Program is not to be restricted to eating seaweed and warm bricks of tofu. |
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At Okinawa in 1945, out of 193 kamikaze attacks, 169 planes were destroyed. |
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A seafood that is peculiar to Okinawa is the sea snake caught in the neighbouring subtropical waters. |
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A 32-year old man, meanwhile, died while sailboarding in high waves off southern Okinawa island. |
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Earlier this month, Japanese inspectors in Okinawa found excessive levels of sulfanilamide in a 600 kg batch of live eels imported from Taiwan. |
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With its blue waters, white-sand beaches, and pristine coral reefs, Zamami Island off Okinawa looks like paradise. |
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The island prefecture of Okinawa has the most centenarians per population, and the official attributed this to the subtropical climate. |
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The Okinawa prefecture was in fact under direct U.S. military administration from 1945 to 1972, when it was handed over to the Japanese. |
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The open-air Garden Asahi serves goya chanpuru, an Okinawa staple made of bitter gourd, meat and eggs. |
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For the U.S., Okinawa is the pivot of its East Asian military presence. |
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The physical movements of the performers evoke those of a pythoness at traditional rituals of ancient Okinawa. |
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Duck bred stress-free in the rich natural environment under the blue skies of Okinawa is characterized by its natural flavorsome meat. |
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The Caine is finally decommissioned in the fall of 1945, after steaming its broken-down way home from Okinawa. |
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This portrait shows two immigrants from Okinawa, Japan, dressed in their best clothes. |
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They have refused more than token assistance from a US task force, home-based in Okinawa, which was fortuitously deployed off Thailand. |
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That was followed by histrionic threats to attack Guam, Okinawa, Hawaii and the American mainland itself. |
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Become harden with a long civil war and a Korean campaign, Okinawa was an easy prey for Japanese samurais. |
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That all changed when Brees went to Okinawa in the spring of 2008 on a USO trip. |
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Strain fungus OB-0098 was isolated from an unidentified univalve shell collected on Okinawa main island, Okinawa, Japan. |
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The historic American campaign begins after Midway and goes to Guadalcanal, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and more. |
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For now, despite the bases, anti-American feeling does not run deep on Okinawa. |
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We thank all those who participated in the work of the Renewable Energy Task Force established in Okinawa. |
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Cretan, Okinawa and Inuit diets have all proven their beneficial effects on health. |
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This episode dates back to 1972, when the administrative rights over Okinawa, an island in the southern part of Japan, were returned to Japan. |
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But this study has showed that it is present at least in 4 locations on Okinawa island. |
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It is one of the subjects we shall also be discussing at the G7 meeting in Okinawa. |
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It all started in the 16th century, when the Chinese occupied Okinawa and passed a law that no one was aloud any weapons of some sort. |
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In the ancient time of Okinawa Karate, students were taught only the positions during the first year of training. |
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While in Japan, the Canadian delegation held meetings in Tokyo, Nagoya and Okinawa. |
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Although the nuchibana song lyrics mention cherry blossoms, the flowers used in the garlands actually depict a type of hibiscus plant indigenous to Okinawa. |
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Their value to the fleet was highlighted during the invasion of Okinawa, when kamikaze attacks upon the Fifth Fleet created high numbers of casualties among the forces afloat. |
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On ships, and on overseas bases like Okinawa, the options are even more limited. |
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Not only is Paleo flipping evolution upside down, but a second retro diet for future health, the Okinawa, comes in at number six. |
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But of course the largest nation involved in Okinawa was the U.S., which saw no fighting on its mainland at all. |
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A month after the invasion of Okinawa, he complained of stomach pains and was admitted to a naval hospital in Oakland. |
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About a hundred people gathered on this tiny island off the northwest coast of Okinawa on Sunday to remember a newsman who brought war home in the most personal terms. |
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However, by 1972 the native melon fly had done substantial harm to bitter gourd crops, and Japan at the time had a law banning the shipment of plants affected by parasites from Okinawa to the rest of the country. |
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But Okinawa was once an independent kingdom, a peaceful place which avoided conflict with the two great powers on either side of it by paying tribute to both. |
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Hokkaido has a separate network, and Okinawa Island has a highway of this type. |
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At the G8 Summit held in July 2000 in Okinawa, the rich industrialised G8 countries pledged substantial funds to fight communicable diseases and help the sick in poor countries. |
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The Global Poverty Report at the G-8 summit in Okinawa in July 2000 also said that the lives of poor people are more affected by actions at the national level. |
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In 2000 at the Okinawa summit, Heads agreed to provide further funding to fight infectious disease and adopted a charter on new information and communications technology and the digital divide. |
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The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north until reaching Hokkaido in late July. |
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At the G8 Kyushu Okinawa Summit in July 2000, under the chairmanship of Japan, the issue of infectious diseases in developing countries was for the first time made one of the major items on the agenda. |
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The Ryukyu Islands, which include Okinawa, are a chain to the south of Kyushu. |
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Hideyoshi was soon dead, but his successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the long-running Tokugawa shogunate, had not forgotten the insolence of Okinawa, now riven between pro-Chinese and pro-Japanese factions. |
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That decision sparked a renewed uproar in Japan, where thousands have repeatedly protested against the U. S. presence in Okinawa, and impelled the SDP to leave the coalition government. |
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It is perhaps significant that the 2000 Okinawa G8 summit was the first in the twenty-five year history of summitry that was largely dedicated to NorthSouth issues. |
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Those efforts culminated in the eradication of the melon fly in Okinawa, ultimately allowing all people across the country to enjoy these nutrient-rich bitter gourds. |
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American naval and amphibious forces also moved towards Japan, taking Iwo Jima by March, and Okinawa by the end of June. |
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On the Japanese island of Okinawa, for example, people have a strikingly low rate of mental disorder and Okinawans are notable fish eaters, even by the standards of a piscivorous country like Japan. |
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Duck bred stress-free in the rich nature under the blue skies of Okinawa is characterized by natural, flavorsome meat. Also rich in unsaturated fatty acid, it is a safe duck meat that suppresses the level of bad cholesterol. |
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In 1993-95, the Japanese got so fed up with American trade pressure that anti-Americanism grew rife, culminating in a big demonstration against American military bases on the island of Okinawa. |
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Spices, rare timbers, rhinoceros horn, silks, jewels, lacquerware, celadon, folding screens and the magical ingredients on which alchemists base their art: all filled up the warehouses at Naha, the main Okinawa port. |
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Beef is more common in western Japan, including Osaka, and in Okinawa, chicken is favoured. |
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The Okinawa prefecture consists of a chain of islands extending from the southwestern-most main island of Japan down toward Taiwan. |
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Leaders representing Africa were first invited to the G8 Summit at Okinawa in 2000, and the relationship was strengthened in 2002 in Kananaskis and Monterrey, where the G8 put African development firmly on the agenda. |
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Okinawa Prefecture hopes the new flight service will help double the number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan's southwest island prefecture. |
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I request particularly that the debt be included on the Agenda of the Meeting in Okinawa in a complete and thorough way, with particular attention to the points listed above. |
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Instead, they were deployed more than 3,000 miles away, in Okinawa, Japan. |
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Other sites slated for the biodiversity observation project in Japan include Lake Biwa, Seto Inland Sea and the Kerama islands in Okinawa. |
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Tianyuan is similar in morphology to Minatogawa Man, modern humans dated between 17,000 and 19,000 years ago and found on Okinawa Island, Japan. |
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Fresh Okinawa soba with noddles, soup and meat. |
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We also carried troops to the combat zones and then brought them back in body bags from Okinawa to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. |
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Plus, a manta ray on the Japanese island of Okinawa that needs an ultra-sound scan to determine if it's pregnant. |
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He could maintain an existing agreement with America, which would mollify the administration, and hope that the anger in Okinawa is eventually forgotten by much of the electorate. |
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At Okinawa last year, we pledged to make a quantum leap in the fight against infectious diseases and to break the vicious cycle between disease and poverty. |
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Many masters from Okinawa immigrated to Japan to create their own Karate styles and increase the martial arts population with styles like kendo, judo, jiu-jitsu and Aikido. |
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Upon arriving in the warning areas east of Okinawa, Badman focused on using their air-non-combat expenditure allowance of air-to-air weapons. |
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The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. |
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Leathernecks lost 125 men in eight hours of sustained fighting on Okinawa. |
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Kishida and Onodera are expected to seek Nakaima's approval for a plan to relocate the Futenma Air Station from Ginowan to the Henoko district in Nago, both Okinawa. |
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A girl, 15, and a boy, 16, both senior high school students and children of civilian workers at Camp Zukeran in southern Okinawa, were arrested, the police said. |
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From 1945 to 1972 Okinawa was under American administration. |
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Takei, who with his family spent World War II in Japanese-American internment camps, described his childhood to audiences in Okinawa, Osaka, Tokyo and Sendai. |
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The Naha flight information region covers Okinawa and surrounding waters. |
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Indeed, the District Court in Washington twice held that the absence of the jury system in the civil administration courts in Okinawa invalidated criminal convictions. |
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The USS West Virginia became one of many symbols of American resolve.... Her big guns pounded the enemy at the battles of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. |
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