Most people aspire to live a long, happy, and healthy life, yet only a few achieve it. However, there is a place in Japan ...

Okinawans in Japan, part of a Blue Zone, live long due to their Moai tradition—small social groups offering financial and emotional support. This practice, along with healthy diets, exercise, and a ...

forcing the Taiki Okinawa support facility for disabled people here, which makes the toy, to consider suspending production. Although there were 10 or so craftsmen working there, the number ...

People can enjoy leisure activities there without ... It is quite common in Okinawa Prefecture, he said, for the water to be calm on one side of a cape but there to be a rapid current on the ...

He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People’s Party. The party’s principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the ...

More than 5,500 people, about one-third of the village, eventually lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa. On a hill overlooking the village, a ruin of the bloody battle remains.

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 ...

Okinawa, Japan, one of the world’s rare Blue Zones where people live long lives, has introduced a new wellness tour focused ...

Okinawa Adventures has launched a wellness tour in its namesake prefecture, one of only five 'Blue Zones' where people live ...