How to pronounce “okinawa” in English

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

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.

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.

Here's the Okinawans are particularly interesting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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

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

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.