Kawata;Okinawa;Japan

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "An LCT (landing craft, tanks) operated by Okinawans parked on the beach at Kawata for loading with firewood to be hauled to the southern part of the island. This LCT is like the boat on which Coleman and I stayed at Ada last year. The LCVP (Ianding craft, vehicles, and personnel) beyond the LCT is also used for hauling freight."

Bedded rice paddies, or "tamboes," near Taira, Motobu peninsula, with sweet potato slips on ridges. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The floodplain shown in G108 with rice paddies on Akamaru soils in the spring when the supply of water permits irrigation on all 'tamboes'."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Rice paddies, some of which have been bedded for sweet potatoes, in the valley of a small stream near the villages of Kawata and Myagusuku, east coast of northern Okinawa. Two women and a boy are chopping the the soil in one of the paddies, whereas a man has just finished cutting the ripe rice in another. The newly chopped paddies will be used for a second crop of rice this year."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Plantings of young pandanus, also called Australian screw pine, to control movement of sand on the beach at Kawata. The firewood, mostly saplings cut in about 6-foot lengths, to go on the LCT [landing craft, tank] is stacked on the beach."