A note to the new Ambassador from Japan:
Ms. Kennedy-san, do you think it's proper for the nation famous for feedlots, hormone injections, and other inhumanities perpetrated on innocent cattle, pigs, and chickens held in squalid captivity awaiting death to tut-tut-twitter about humane treatment of animals? Have you an opinion to share about the wolf-pack slaughters? Any comments on the absence of bees in almond orchards?
When you have solved these moral dilemmas, let us know and we will listen with deep interest.
Okinawa Looks Like This
Peaceful: a beautiful place for a walk
自己紹介
- Chura
- Born and raised in the USA (NJ), I’ve spent most of my adult life in Japan. One of my favorite places in Japan is Okinawa. To me, Okinawa is a land of stories and an island of music, magic and mystery. The music is shima-uta, songs sung to the rhythm of a three-stringed lute called a sanshin. The magic is in the colors of land, sea and sky. The mystery? Mystery begins where the line between legend and verifiable human memories begins to blur. I am a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, chapter chief of a sanshin study society, and a founding member of the Marine Culture Research Association of Okinawa.