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...effort to preserve local culture after the decimation wreaked by WW II, traditional wooden houses from other islands were uprooted and reconstructed as a village at Ryukyu Mura, tel: (81-98) 965 1234, near the west coast of the main Okinawa Island. But this is no theme park. The elderly residents (locals regularly top the world's longevity lists thanks to a healthy diet and lifestyle) are serious about saving their way of life and will happily chat to you for hours on end over endless cups of green tea and sata andagi - sweet, deep-fried doughnuts. (See 10 things...
...world's collective psyche. What's less well known is that 200,000 people, including 100,000 civilians, died during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the biggest campaign of the Asia-Pacific War. The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, peace- museum.pref.okinawa.jp, is located in the eponymous park on the southern tip of Okinawa Island and showcases poignant exhibits. One section covers the lead-up to WW II, another the postwar period when Okinawa was transformed by U.S. military occupation...
According to Yesawich, Oasis is tailor-made for first-timers--hence the park, the golf, the shows. "Getting them on the ship is the big hurdle," says Brown. "So the way to get a ton of them up the gangplank is to make it as much like land as possible." Apparently, irony floats...
Philip M. Cronin ’53, a Crimson trustee, told Duehay that he would receive support from the trust for funding a plaque and a ceremony commemorating Halberstam and the naming of the new park...
...same document, he and the others started a new round of training in swimming and navigation for an operation at sea, and on Sept. 15 they learned that their target was Mumbai. The 10 gunmen who arrived in Mumbai on Nov. 26 would land at the jetty at Budhwar Park, an unguarded fishing spot near the southern end of Mumbai, carrying their weapons with them. The Mumbai attack - which paralyzed a city of 18 million for nearly three days - was a terrifying example of jihadi groups effectively using small, decentralized cells to plan and execute a complex operation...