Golden Week Pics. One picture is of when they dragged me up on stage and I "danced" in front of the Okinawan Band. Okinawa music is very distinct from the rest of Japan. They have a special snake skin-covered stringed instrument that I like to call the Japanese Banjo. In the other picture, Cristina and I are standing in front of America-ya (America Store) which sells everything from Abercrombie and Fitch to used American parachutes for thousands of dollars. It was so ridiculous. Americans are not well received by the Okinawans always because of the number of concentrated American bases on such a relatively small island.