Nakasone;Okinawa;Japan

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small valley of Nakasoni silt loam in wheat, cabbage, beans, and sugar cane in the plain of Reddish-Brown Lateritic soils from limestone along the north edge of Motobu peninsula."

Patches of beans and tobacco plants growing near Nakasone, Okinawa. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Several kinds of beans, mostly ripening, and young tobacco at site of H82. This general area was used by the American army during preparations for the Japanese invasion; houses are just now being re-built."

A field of ripening string bean pods. The US army had previously used this general area to prepare for the Japanese invasion. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Ripening pods of string beans on Brown Forest soils from limestone north of Nakasoni, Motobu peninsula."