The Ryūkyūan People's quest for self-determination and Indigenous status has been thwarted by over 100 years of harsh assimilation policies and a heavy U.S military presence since WWII.

A large and powerful typhoon came close to Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami region in Kagoshima Prefecture on August

Rather, author Jon Mitchell traces, with calm and incisive authority, the centuries of subjugation and dominance forced on the Pacific’s Okinawa Islands by its neighbour in the north – their annexation by Japan (in 1879),

People from the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa have shared their traditional dancing, music and history at an international event in Germany.

Japan's rowdiest romance reality show comes back for a second run, and the biggest change is architectural: the sealed academy that manufactured its intimacy is