The subtropical island of Okinawa Prefecture has an environment ... We hear folk songs recalling the sufferings and troubled history of Okinawa, from the samurai conquest incorporating it into ...

Both Okinawa and the Uezu family have a long history of suffering ... Uezu heard some people argue that Okinawa should gain independence from Japan. Others said the island prefecture would develop ...

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.

Shortly after Masaharu Noguni was born, U.S. troops landed on the main island of Okinawa Prefecture on April ... gained the cooperation of about 1,500 people both in Japan and abroad to read ...

"Okinawan people are very open-minded and inclusive," Yumiko says, pointing to the eclectic pottery creations on the island as proof. In many ways, Okinawa is another world unto itself, a mystical ...

In Okinawa, more than 22,000 people were conscripted in this way. This amounted to about 20 percent of the fighting force deployed on the main island of Okinawa. The policy was also called ...

In the final months of World War Two, the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa experienced ... He began to make regular visits to the island, interviewing people who survived the fighting.

Mysteries still shroud a tragedy 80 years ago in which many civilian passengers died in U.S. military attacks on running ...