Okinawa Beach

On this soft, gentle beach of white sand and crystal clear water, you relax like a fallen leaf floating on the waves, or a piece of ice slowly melting in the warm rays of the sun. The absolute absence of any unnatural noise is like a lullaby that makes your mind wander back to the days when all you knew were the few sounds of your mother's belly and the beating of your own heart. Okinawa Prefecture is one of Japan's southern prefectures. It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km (621 miles) long. The oldest evidence of human existence in the Ryukyu islands was discovered in Naha and Yaese. Some human bone fragments from the Paleolithic era were unearthed, but there is no clear evidence of Paleolithic remains. Japanese Jōmon influences are dominant in the Okinawa Islands, although clay vessels in the Sakishima Islands have a commonality with those in Taiwan. A quarter of the civilian population died during the Battle of Okinawa. After the end of World War II in 1945, Okinawa was under United States administration for 27 years. During the trusteeship rule the United States Air Force established numerous military bases on the Ryukyu islands. During the Korean War, B-29 Superfortresses flew bombing missions from Kadena AFB over Korea and China. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=125204