The clothes were not popular among residents, however. Ishikawa made an Okinawa shirt with hibiscus patterns on it upon request from the hotel association, but she felt uncertain about where they ...

Harumi Miyagi’s mother was a village employee on the small island of Zamami in Okinawa Prefecture who provided food and lodging for 15 Japanese soldiers at her home in 1945. When a U.S. military ...

The subtropical island of Okinawa Prefecture has an environment, climate and culture very different to mainland Japan. An independent kingdom and trading hub until the 17th century, the influence ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

In Okinawa, more than 22,000 people were conscripted ... The analysis reveals how civilian deaths accumulated, by tracking the shifting patterns of their occurrence on a day-by-day basis.

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic".

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 ...

Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ... This model generates patterns that closely resemble the activity of actual brain cells involved in both spatial awareness ...