Comedian proud of home Okinawa despite heavy U.S. military presence

Gori, a member of the Japanese comedy duo Garage Sale and who was born in Okinawa Prefecture in 1972 when the island was returned to Japan from U.S. postwar occupation, speaks in an interview in Naha, capital of the southwestern Japanese prefecture, on May 10, 2015, of how changing attitudes toward Okinawa from the rest of Japan have enabled him to feel inferior no longer and instead be proud of his home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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