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Pro baseball makes early arrival in Okinawa

For many Japanese pro-baseball players, Feb. 1 marks Day One of training. And many teams of the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) head to the sub-tropical islands of Okinawa to kick off the team warm-up

Okinawa Goat Misaki in Naha: An anthropology of goat cuisine

Goat meat, like Chui jhal, Boodog or Kaldereta, is usually associated with Bengal, Mongolian or Filipino cuisine. It is not what you normally associate with Japanese cuisine, so how did it make as a powerhouse dish in this oversized counter bar and dining room they call Misaki?

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