YAESE, Okinawa Prefecture--Mitsuo Matsunaga crawled inch by inch through a hole just large enough for an adult to fit through and descended two meters or so down a slope using a ladder and rope.
NAHA--Okinawa this weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of its return to Japanese sovereignty, a bittersweet moment for the southernmost prefecture that still shoulders the bulk of the burden in ...
Japanese studio IGArchitects has completed the Pyramid Hut, an angular, concrete home nestled into a sloping site in Okinawa. Influenced by the home's site, which backs onto a cemetery ...
Unless corrective measures are made, and quickly, the anti-U.S. military base sentiment and movement in Okinawa will grow, damaging Japan-U.S. cooperation at a crucial time. The Ministry of ...
Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.
Influenced by the home's site, which backs onto a cemetery, IGArchitects designed the pyramidal home as a "closed structure" to distance the residence from its surroundings. As such, the home's ...