Archive for the ‘Okinawa’ Category

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  Day 7-8 Hello Okinawa!

  Mar 31, 11 • 763 Views • Blog, Kyushu, Okinawa • Sachi • No Comments

  After 25 hours of a rather rough ferry boat ride, I arrived in the evening in the port of Naha. Naha is the capital of Okinawa prefecture. A friend of my friend came to get me with her 8 months old baby (crying), and we headed to have dinner at an Okinawan...

  
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  Japan Needs All Our Help

  Mar 19, 11 • 939 Views • Blog, Japan Disaster Relief, Okinawa, Video • Sachi • No Comments

  On March 11, 2011, on the day after I started my Japan cycle tour, magnitude-8.9 earthquake hit off the shore of Japan, unleashing a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and leaving enormous destruction in its wake. That area, that route, were exactly where I was...