A colossal, dark-skinned man rides along the sidewalk on a motorbike: no helmet, two small children aboard - a vision of life in the laconic Tropics. There are times here too on Yonaguni, the westernmost land mass in Okinawa Prefecture, when you see a curvaceous island woman in a vivid, flower-patterned dress, and you think of Paul Gauguin and the Tahitian women he painted. (Japan Times)
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