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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Iron Fist, which runs through March 7, comes as Japan faces “the most severe security environment it has seen since the end ...

RANGE: The Okinawa woodpecker lives only in Yanbaru, a small area of forested woodlands in the northern mountainous region of the island of Okinawa, Japan. MIGRATION: This species does not migrate.

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