Just 350 miles from Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, Okinawa was home to an ethnically diverse group of people. Many Okinawans had mixed blood, unlike their Japanese neighbors to the north.

On Nov. 7, community leaders and elders of the Paiwan group, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan ... for reconciliation efforts between the peoples of Okinawa and Taiwan was a 2004 meeting in Mudan ...

The event highlighted the commonalities between Indigenous people across the globe — from the Tembé people of Alto Rio Guamá, Brazil, Ryukyuan people from Okinawa, Japan, to the Noongar and ...

Now, Japanese overseas as well as Japanese government are looking to promote Awamori, an alcoholic beverage indigenous to Okinawa. Awamori is a distilled spirit, made of Thai-mai (long grain rice ...

The Pteropus dasymallus daitonensis, better known as the Daito flying fox, is the only mammal indigenous to islands ... veterinarian on the main island of Okinawa and took the injured animal ...

In 2016 the Marine Corps constructed six controversial new helipads in its Jungle Warfare Training Center, despite intense protest from local, Okinawan people and concerns about the Okinawan ...