"Nakijin Village in Okinawa. The natural beaches there are very beautiful. Although the sunlight is strong, you can feel yourself being healed more and more. Someday, I hope to live a life where I can relax in nature.
I have taken photos themed around Okinawa and made them available for various uses. I want to increase the number of Okinawa fans. Therefore, I have made the photos easy to download.
The downloadable photos do not have any text on them, so they can be used for various purposes. I would be happy if you could use the photos of Okinawa. Thank you.
The link below contains all the photos, including many that are not themed around Okinawa."
How To Read and Understand Japanese Sentences (Part 2)
To catch who is doing what; who is the main subject and who is being affected by the action; you have to pay attention to the particles.
When a person is followed by the particle は such as (田中さんは…), the speaker is trying to tell you about Mr. Tanaka.
In other situations where the speaker wants to emphasize that IT IS Mr. Tanaka who did something, the particle が would be used instead (田中さんが…)
When an object is followed by the particle を, you know the subject is doing something to this object. If I say ご飯を…, you know the subject is going to do something to the meal. Whether he is eating a meal or cooking a meal, that... you have to read the verb at the end of the sentence.
In Japanese sentences, you will never know what happened to the object or what the subject did to the object until you read the verb at the end. For instance, if I say ドレスを…, the subject could wear a dress, buy a dress, draw a picture of a dress, sew a dress, or even steal a dress, etc. There are many possibilities to what the subject could do to a dress in that sentence. As a reader, you would never know until you see the verb at the end.
And to make a simple sentence longer, Japanese people would add extra details to describe about the subject or/and the object. Let's take a look at this simple sentence below.
女の子はドレスを着ています。
The little girl wears a dress.
This is the most basic sentence structure of Subject+Object+Verb.
You have no idea where this girl comes from, what kind of dress she is wearing, what colour is the dress, etc. Now, let's make it longer.
隣に住んでいる女の子は、先週の誕生日に私からもらったかわいいピンクのドレスを着ています。
The little girl who lives next door wears a cute pink dress which she received from me as a present on her birthday last week.
Now, you have a better image in your head about the little girl and the dress she is wearing. It enhances your imagination about the character and the storyline.
Let's take another sentence.
姉はチーズケーキを食べました。
My elder sister ate a cheesecake.
Again, there is very little to feel and imagine from this short sentence. Let's make it longer by adding some details about the cake.
姉は父が仕事の後、家に帰る途中で私のために買ってきたチーズケーキをうっかり食べてしまいました。
My elder sister accidentally ate the cheesecake that my father bought for me on his way home after work.
Now, you could feel the sadness and disappointment of the speaker towards the elder sister of what she did. And you also know where that cheesecake came from.