Okinawans in Japan, part of a Blue Zone, live long due to their Moai tradition—small social groups offering financial and ...

Japanese prosecutors on Okinawa will not pursue charges against a U.S. Marine accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a ...

Four people from Okinawa Prefecture arrived at an airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1968, when Okinawa was still under U.S. rule. The U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR), which ...

Researchers have shed light on the dieting habits of 'Blue Zone' residents in a bid to help people live past 100 years old ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan Purtell, RDN The Okinawa diet is based on a traditional style of eating that people living in Japan’s Okinawa islands follow. This diet generally includes foods that are ...

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 ...

A cherry blossom festival is attracting people to a mountain in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, ahead of other places in ...

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 ...

Over 2,500 people staged a rally in the city of Okinawa on Sunday to protest against sexual assaults on local girls and women by U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa Prefecture. They adopted a ...

The number of people with dementia who go missing while venturing out alone is increasing. In Okinawa Prefecture, 118 such cases were reported to the prefectural police last year, the highest ...

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 ...