Nansei Shoto Ryuku Islands-Loochoo Islands: A Pocket Guide Page: 10
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other tropical fruit trees. In the winter months
these places pften smell honey-sweet, as sugar
is generally manufactured right on the farm.
The city buildings are more substantial,
many of them made of stone, brick or concrete. J
Some streets are paved, and electricity is used S
widely. r
NANSEI FASHIONS h
You'll notice a lot of kimonos in the city
streets, but you'll see more familiar fashions, a
too. Farmers and fishermen wear tight-fitting
pants, loose jackets and rubber-soled canvas
shoes. Officials and business men like to wear
western clothes. Women go in heavily for the h
kimono, but they often wear light European-style a
dresses to keep cool. In the back country, the
fashion calls for clothing from the waist down.
From the waist up, it's strictly suntan. 8
In short, Nansei fashions provide clothing
for every man's taste. If your taste is exotic,
look (discreetly) for the tattooing on the backs
of the hands of many Okinawa women.
DEALING WITH ENEMY CIVILIANS
These islands are part of Japan's prewar
empire, and the people are enemy nationals. In
dealing with them you must go by the book, and t
the book to go by is the U.S. Army Basic Field t
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Special Publications Branch. Nansei Shoto Ryuku Islands-Loochoo Islands: A Pocket Guide, pamphlet, [1941..1946]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1677274/m1/12/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.