“There is something unpredictable about how and when people change,” Uehara noted in explaining why he wrote the story, according to a book by critic Risaku Kiridoshi. An Okinawan native who ...

The islands of Okinawa, located in southern Japan, are home to more centenarians—people aged 100 or older—than anywhere else in the world. People living in Okinawa have a lower rate of cancer ...

This perfect circle freezes out the Okinawan people. In 2013 a new think tank, the New Diplomacy Initiative, formed, and published a blueprint for ameliorating the burden on Okinawans while ...

40 years ago, when the postwar American occupation of Okinawa ended and many people began to talk about their wartime experiences for the first time. They described their clear memories in vivid ...

Alaska Native and Okinawan heritage. Their mission is to foster cultural awareness and unity through educational programs, ...

Jared Ranahan is a reporter who covers travel and ecotourism. The Okinawa Islands are part of the Ryukyu Archipelago, a chain that stretches from Taiwan to ... [+] Kyushu. Vaulted to international ...

The dessert plate has homemade yoghurt, citrus jelly, an Okinawa doughnut, and the island’s native shikuwasa citrus ... which has since turned into a community centre. Here, elderly people from Ogimi ...

Cats that went feral are posing an additional threat to the Okinawa spiny rat and other ... noting that cats are not indigenous to the area. The finding was based on an analysis of cat fecal ...

Japan's COVID-19 cases are rising again, especially in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, as people enjoy normal summer activities for the first time in three years. Some doctors fear another ...

Ipu Angit’s close relationship with the forest here in the interior of Borneo is evident as he identifies the plants and ...

Yonna Yonna Gelato, an offshoot of the award-winning Yanbaru Gelato from Okinawa, is launching in Hong Kong this November.