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Demanding Fukki. Both in Tokyo and the Okinawan capital of Naha, Okinawans held demonstrations too, but of a far more purposeful and peaceful nature. In Naha, about 20,000 showed up to hear Chief Executive Chobyo Yara and Shinei Kyan, head of the Council for the Return of Okinawa Prefecture to the Fatherland, demand that Okinawa revert to Japanese control. "The more people shout," said Kyan, "the stronger will be public opinion for our goal." Shouting is hardly needed to convince most Okinawans: Yara was elected last November on a platform demanding fukki, or immediate reversion. Yara has no illusions...
...shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans. Not quite as visible, but equally pervasive, is American control of Okinawan affairs. Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied territory of World...
...nutcracker was developed by z suburban Detroit karate expert, Russell Hanke. He adapted the weapon from a similar one used by the Okinawans during World War II. In its original form, the device was used by Okinawan farmers for centuries as a tool to flail rice. Said Hanke: "It was the only weapon I couldn't figure out a way to fight." On the strength of Detroit's success with the instrument, Michigan state police and 45 other municipal and county police organizations are now testing the nutcracker, which, some have found, can also crack nuts...
...keeping with Harvard's tradition of intellectual purity and perfection, the Club here will teach Okinawan Uechi-Ryu (pronounced oo-AY-chee ryoo) Karate, a style which adheres closely to the form of discipline as it was taught by the Buddhist monks. (The type of karate which emphasizes board-breaking and other such stunts is a Japanese corruption of the real thing...
...would like to go to the University of Hawaii to study English. Then I would make a building in the side of my village where I would take care of my Okinawan children. Then I want to put a library into this building so that everybody may be able to read whenever they want. I would like to open the door to the poor children and anyone else who wishes the comfort or joy to be always found within. If it is possible, I would like to teach a right and beautiful English in an Okinawan high school...