Okinawa;Japan

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Earth slide with some rock and trees along the main road north from Rykom to Ishikawa, a few miles south of the latter village. This is in a deep cut in the schist or phyllite. Truck to show scale."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Seedling beds with the rice plants beginning to show through the surface of the soil which has been made smooth with a trowel or by hand. People are chopping the paddies or tamboes for the transplants which will be set out in another 2 or 3 weeks. This is about ½ mile east of the tip of Shana Wan, Okinawa."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Ripening millet about ready for harvest in small patch on Reddish Brown Lateritic soils from limestone in the small plain on Hedo Misaki, north tip of Okinawa."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Ripening rice in foreground with one harvested paddy in left background, all on Alluvial soils associated with Regosol from calcareous clays. Beyond the paddies are patches of sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and manioc (cassava or tapioca), some grassed uplands with a few pines. A thatched roof shows above some ornamental plants in the middle distance."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Brown Forest soil from limestone, wet after heavy rain of last night, with new slips of sweet potatoes set out in foreground and older ones beyond. There are a few volunteer stalks of sorghum and some of the houses beyond the sweet potatoes."

A field of taro and sweet potatoes, northwest of Yonabaru, Okinawa. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Taro and sweet potatoes growing on fine-textured Alluvial soil washed from Shimajiri marl near site of G125 and G126."

Tea bushes, about 20 inches tall, southwest of Ishikawa (now called Uruma). Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The field of tea bushes, showing the rolling topography, and the poor second growth forest beyond."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small Okinawan foundry making utensils from aluminum scrap from wrecked planes. The shelter is made of poles and canvas, the furnace is an oil drum in which charcoal is burned, the crucibles are discarded American infantry helmets, and the utensils are muffin pans, rice boilers, and large pans. Little girl is in common dress; man is filing edges of muffin pan. Thatched roofs are houses beyond the foundry."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Hentona Akiko and Cheoko, two Okinawan girls who live in Miyagi Shima at the mouth of the Shana Wan and are in the 8th grade at the Tsuha primary school."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Two coarse grasses and scattered brush common to the steep-sided little hills formed where sands in the Shimajiri marl outcrop on the surface. These slopes, about 80%, are perhaps 2 miles northwest of Yonabaru, Okinawa."