This work by anthropologist Rupert Cox and sound artist Angus Carlyle explores the memory of Okinawan islander Yogi-San of his experiences sheltering from the 1945 US Naval bombardment - the 'typhoon of steel'.

It is a strange and bitter irony that the US naval bombardment which launched the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was called the ‘typhoon of steel’, invoking the turbulent winds that annually buffet this small island. Okinawans in coastal villages, such as Sunabe where the US forces made their landings, sought shelter from this mechanical, yet elemental force of destruction in one of the many caves that scatter the landscape. War planes still fly over Sunabe today, from the United States Air Force base of Kadena. It is in resonant spaces like the cave (gama) that we may hear how war memory becomes a way of listening to the environment and how Yogi-san’s words, solidified as text and witness to history, convey the experience of many Okinawans, suspended between the American wars of the past, present and future.