Award-winning food journalist La Carmina on her favorite Okinawan cuisine, from Ryukyu court cooking to shikuwasa citrus.

Discover the dietary secrets of the world’s longest-living people and why their "forbidden" list is the key to a vibrant, disease-free life well into your 100s.

The central government and Okinawa Prefecture remained apart Sunday over the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within the prefecture. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara visited Okinawa Gov ...

The Okinawa Prefectural Government said Monday that the water supply is expected to be cut off in 17 municipalities in the central and southern parts of the prefecture’s main island due to a ...

Hermit crabs, turtles and other species found only in Okinawa are vanishing from its beaches, as smugglers and souvenir-hunting tourists strip Japan’s southernmost islands of their unique wildlife.

Chinese observers have downplayed Beijing’s reference to Okinawans as “indigenous”, saying the comments were mainly a critique of the militarisation of Japan’s southernmost prefecture – home to dozens ...

Okinawa, an archipelago that stretches from just below Japan’s main islands almost to Taiwan, means different things to different people. For many Japanese visitors, Okinawa, with its white stretches ...

OKINAWA – When Japan’s famed Golden Route, spanning major cities Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, has been done and dusted, the sunny shores of its southernmost prefecture await. Comprising more than 160 ...

Groceries in general are up almost 2%, but inflation is nearly twice as great for food eaten away from home. Disney Plus and Hulu brought the replica house to life but it's made from gingerbread.

This is part of a collection of stories spotlighting deeply rooted—yet sometimes less exposed—crafts hubs around the world and how to experience them. Read more here. At Chinen Bingata laboratory on ...

On April 1, 1945, thousands of American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a heavily fortified Pacific island to the south of Japan. Nearly three months later, the United States claimed victory ...

On this day 80 years ago, victory was wrested from the depths of hell when American forces triumphed over the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Okinawa—a brutal and blood-soaked triumph that was ...