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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

where the island was the site of a bloody battle that claimed the lives of 200,000 people, including 94,000 Okinawans. After WWII, most of Okinawa’s population were placed in internment camps ...