My family moved from New Orleans to Okinawa. Public spaces in Japan are design with kids in mind, something I miss now that I ...

People can enjoy leisure activities there without ... It is quite common in Okinawa Prefecture, he said, for the water to be calm on one side of a cape but there to be a rapid current on the ...

Okinawans in Japan, part of a Blue Zone, live long due to their Moai tradition—small social groups offering financial and emotional support. This practice, along with healthy diets, exercise, and a ...

Okinawa’s population actually increased to 1,468,634 as of Oct. 1, 2022, because 806 more people relocated to the prefecture than those who moved out over the year. Although the upward trend ...

He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People’s Party. The party’s principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the ...

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.

Japan's COVID-19 cases are rising again, especially in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, as people enjoy normal summer activities for the first time in three years. Some doctors fear another ...

More than 5,500 people, about one-third of the village, eventually lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa. On a hill overlooking the village, a ruin of the bloody battle remains.

Junglia Okinawa, a new theme park located in northern Okinawa’s lush jungle, is set to open in July 2025—and it’s unlike ...

Okinawa, Japan, one of the world’s rare Blue Zones where people live long lives, has introduced a new wellness tour focused ...

Okinawa Adventures has launched a wellness tour in its namesake prefecture, one of only five 'Blue Zones' where people live ...