With US Air Force and Marine bases, the island of Okinawa, Japan has seen a lot of Americans come and go. Many were stationed there for years. Of my past students, one just told me she was moving to Okinawa for three years as her husband was stationed there. A former student from a few years ago spent time as a Marine there, where he met his first wife. He has Japanese-American kids and learned Japanese while over there. And one lady several years ago had grown up as a kid for several years on Okinawa, she chose to do her project on Japan including Okinawa in order to learn more about the place that she didn't understand back then.
Okinawa is a subtropical island, warm, high humidity with palm trees, lots of rocky coasts, and is closer to Taiwan and Shanghai, China than to Tokyo. What an opportunity to travel from there, to the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Korea, SE Asia, and the rest of Japan all close by.
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