Red Flower: The women of Okinawa is about a book about the young women in Koza and Kin, Okinawa after the war was over. many American soldiers were still stationed there and young women had boyfriend after boyfriend. It was very common back then that women would live with the soldier they had met in the bar. weep when he left and move on to the next. Many of these images are from the first book Ishikawa published called Hot Days in Camp Hansen. However, that book had a short lived life as the publisher was forced to trash it after a law suit decided it was not allowed to be published.