Japan where viewers learn about the Okinawa diet and why traditional Japanese cuisine may play a role in longevity. Clearly, something is working since Japan has the highest number of centenarians ...

Longevity researcher Dan Buettner has been fascinated with finding exactly what it is that makes people in certain corners of ...

Source: iStockphoto/Getty Images The traditional Okinawa diet helped people living on the Japanese island to live to age 100 and beyond. Here's how to eat as the Japanese centenarians from Okinawa ...

During his extensive research, his quest took him to Okinawa where, during one of his visits to the island, he spoke to the sprightly 104-year-old, Ushi Okushima who claimed that her diet mainly ...

Okinawa, nestled among picturesque landscapes ... many of whom follow a predominantly plant-based diet. Dan elaborates in his book 'The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer', where he notes ...

“Okinawa’s calls were disregarded without even discussion (in the Diet). We have to continue insisting that the central government makes sincere efforts to satisfy our demands at that time ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal over the last lawsuit on ...

In Okinawa, fish is consumed two to three times weekly in small portions, functioning more as a condiment than a main course. Meat appears in the Sardinian diet approximately five times monthly ...