The car radio also played an Okinawan folk song called “Bashofu” (Basho fiber cloth). The song made Uezu want to see Okinawa again. Tears welled up in his eyes as he remembered the blue skies ...

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A Chinese-led genetic study has offered a new piece to the ancestral puzzle of where modern East Asians came from, but it has also threatened to deepen political fault lines in Okinawa ...

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URUMA CITY, Okinawa — Japanese troops exploded 461 U.S.-made shells off the coast on Thursday, the latest in a continuing stream of World War II leftovers that turn up on the former island ...