The islands of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, stretch across some one thousand miles of the Pacific; throughout history they have been a hub of Asian cultural and commercial exchange, of political repression and, in the Second World War, of brutal fighting, in which a third of the civilian population was lost. US bases occupy some 18 percent of the main island, and American jurisdiction did not end until 1972. The photojournalist Ari Hatsuzawa, who had documented Iraq and North Korea, turns his lens closer to home on the contemporary culture of the southern islands and renders it in the saturated palette of the tropical sun: a rough, often humorous, sometimes surreal view of a human tornado, in the manner of classic street photography and photojournalism, full of snapped cultural exchanges whose subjects are often oblivious to the dark humour of their situation. Symbolism abounds: a primary-school cheerleader skipping past US and Japanese servicemen in front of rocket launchers, golfers playing on courses dotted with traditional tombs, soldiers on leave floating on inner tubes with beers in a rocky cove. As the pages turn the mood changes, with fewer women in kimono and customised motorcycles and more military hardware, chain-link fences, concrete, camera lenses and politics, and uniformed guards holding protesters back. The future of Okinawa is still being woven.