A 102-year-old woman has shared her four secrets to living such a long life and even revealed the importance of eating one particular type of food ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

The remains of some 1,400 people found on Okinawa sit in storage for possible ... Locating and identifying decades-old remains have become increasingly difficult as families and relatives age ...

Called "Moai" (pronounced as Mo-eye), this is an age-old practice in Okinawa which helps people build deep social connections and provide emotional or financial support to each other when needed ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--Kiyoko Tokashiki ... killing about 1,500 people, including 784 children. Takara, 4 years old at the time, survived the sinking. But nine of his family members died.

This year, Aki Heianna, a 17-year-old third-grader at Tsukuba Kaisei ... the Battle of Okinawa is still at the forefront of the Okinawa people’s memories.” He included the word “Now ...

People in Okinawa are coming out in force to protest ... The indictment says that in December, 25-year-old Brennon Washington approached the victim in a park in the central part of Okinawa's ...

The biggest threat to the woodpecker is destruction of its old-growth forest habitat from ... despite intense protest from local, Okinawan people and concerns about the Okinawan woodpecker. “The ...