How to pronounce “oki” in English

And Okiku loved the doll very much.

The Okinawa elder diet, so 70% of their calories came from sweet potatoes, 12% from rice, and 7%

you're watching um Oki that popped in and we had never met before and he had sort of a slow connection I couldn't

Yeah it comes from Okinawa, and it's a very ancient practice on how to find your purpose.

I graduated from Okinawa, Japan.

From Hokkaido to Okinawa in the South, and we have 1 in Seoul abroad.

Here's the Okinawans are particularly interesting.

Kaso-ochi Okizaki. Well, I might have information about him I could look and see.

When I got to Okinawa just two months later, Okinawa, you may not know the history of it, but it was the site of the last great battle of World War II.

like Sardinia and in Italy and Okinawa in Japan, et cetera.

And one of the secrets of the Okinawan society is that they what they call a moai, M-O-A-I. I think that's right, M-O-A-I.

So the moai is when Okinawans are born, their families find them five close friends that they'll have throughout their entire life.

And you'll see pictures of Okinawans with their moais over 100 years after they were created.

And they thought that this is because Okiku loved the doll so much that her spirit possessed this doll.

And those five places are Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Nicoya, Costa Rica;

exceptional longevity. Okinawa, Japan, Italy, Costa Rica, Loma Linda, California.

So about 100 years ago there was a girl called Okiku in Hokkaido, Japan.

But sadly, Okiku passed away after a couple of years.

tell really if if he could hear me and I said hey are you Oki I read his name at the bottom I said hi um and he was

It was birdlike. It was very Okinawan.

You know, I'll boil it with Okinawan sugar and shiitake mushrooms or kombu, that kind of-- not boil it,

I had to make a decision pretty much not to do Hokkaido and Okinawa, because they were off of Honshu.

What I saw in Tokyo, in Okinawa changed my view altogether about the glamor and the glory of war.

But what I saw in Japan, Tokyo and Okinawa, even at 18, my thinking did begin to change.

And I'm going to add soy sauce, a little bit of brown sugar from Okinawa.

you prevent disease and you promote health, whether you're in Okinawa, whether you're in Sardinia, whether you're in Costa Rica, whether you're in Loma Linda,

Swartz married an American soldier, left her home in Okinawa in 1966.

I spent two months in Tokyo, and then almost a year in Okinawa.

To give you some metric on it, there were 100,000 Japanese soldiers defending Okinawa.

mean in in the New Year's hangout when I hit the time zone for um Indonesia there was this really cool kid hi Oki if

And the whole story is in the book, but he explained what it meant in Japanese culture, in this case, Okinawan culture, and what it's used for.

Just to be fair, I mean, look at what happened to the Okies.

I guess I was saying, an important thinker, this philosopher-- Moller Okin, who wrote a book about, it's called, "Justice, Family,

Abandoned farmlands are a big concern in agriculture in Japan Not only in Osaka, but from Hokkaido to Okinawa, there are more and more that have such concerns

And if you go to YouTube and you look at videos that fans have made, they all show dust storms, and they all show Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl, and foreclosures

When I landed, when our ship landed at Naha, which is the capital of Okinawa, there was not a building left standing.

will rise, and the country might as well saw itself off the rest of Europe and float out into the Atlantic, Okie doke. That was the official line.