Looking for the Maneki-Neko Love Hotel

<p style=text-align: justify;>Japan has long been known as the Land of the Rising Sun but it is now better known as the Land of Cat-Cafes Green-Tea Matcha Lattes Love-Hotels and Orion Beer!</p><p style=text-align: justify;>Together Don and Christine Kastner traveled to Japan to attend the 5th Uchinanchu Festival on the small Pacific island of Okinawa where Chris once lived as a teenager in the 1960s with her U.S. Army father and family.</p><p style=text-align: justify;>The sound of choppers hovering overhead . . . takes me back to my childhood. I grew up hearing them in the background . . . or coming in for a landing. It was a comforting background sound—along with the roar of jets streaking through the skies. I was a military brat.</p>