We ate sugarcane and brown sugar grown on Ishigaki Island and drank sugarcane juice.
Yoko Gushiken is a Japanese former professional boxer who held the WBA light-flyweight title from 1976 to 1981, making a total of 13 successful defences. He was born in Ishigaki Island.
Ishigaki Island is located south-west of Okinawa Honto and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group, behind Iriomote Island, approximately 411 km south-west of Okinawa HontÅ.
Although Okinawa is best known for its love of pig, Ishigaki is famous for its Japanese black cattle, both are thought to have originally been brought from China as far back as the Yayoi period.