Greeting your eyes as you emerge from Okinawa Airport into the carpark, and before you have had time to gain the impression of being in a foreign country, are two old stone lions. They are roughly a meter high on their plinths, eyes bulging and mouths gaping, their heads tilted down and hindquarters raised.
踏出琉球機場，還沒來得及感受異國風貌，停車場前一對連台基有約一公尺高，雙目圓睜、嘴巴大張、前身微俯，屁股翹得老高的石獅首先映入眼簾。