Many people wouldn't normally assume that Okinawa, Japan, grows quite a lot of mangoes.
Mango in Japan? Yes, you've heard it right. Mango is grown in Okinawa, the southern most prefecture in Japan.
This short video shows how to cut a piece of mango. You'll find it is a lot easier in this way to serve or eat this sweet, succulent fruit.
This video is provided by Okinawa Fruit Land, a theme park that features subtropical orchards in the northern Okinawa. This facility also houses a room filled with a lot of Idea leuconoe, a species of butterfly with distinct white & black wings. (It is called the rice paper butterfly, the paper kite butterfly, wood nymph, or tree nymph in English, according to Wikipedia)
The music you hear in the back ground of the video is one of the popular Okinawan folk songs, "Uruma Jima," (Uruma is the old name of Okinawa, and Jima means island.)
The music you hear in the back ground of the video is one of the popular Okinawan folk songs, "Uruma Jima," (Uruma is the old name of Okinawa, and Jima means island.)
