The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Okinawa, the southernmost islands of Japan, was once ruled by an independent kingdom with close ties to its Asian neighbors. Its heritage of embracing foreign influences is reflected in its ...

The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped East Asian geopolitics, will world premiere as the opening film of Japan’s ...

But far away from our European neighbours, in a Japanese archipelago in the South Pacific, Okinawa, islanders consistently ...