Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa ... s main island, until two years ago. He was there with his two sons and a daughter so the children--all elementary school pupils--would learn about the history of the Battle ...

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.

Most people aspire to live a long, happy, and healthy life, yet only a few achieve it. However, there is a place in Japan called Okinawa, which stands out as one of the world’s 'Blue Zones'.

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 ...