Keiko Itokazu Okinawans have long felt caught between the United States and Japan, which sent troops to claim the Okinawan island chain in the 1870s. Prior to that, Okinawa was known as the ...

Miyako is part of Okinawa prefecture. It then continued northeast up the Ryukyu island chain until reaching Amami Oshima, an island in Kagoshima prefecture, where it turned around and flew back to ...

Yappari Steak is a steakhouse chain from Okinawa, Japan. According to the Yappari Group, it serves its signature thick-cut, rare beef slices on hot plates made from Mount Fuji lava. When ...

A new United States Marines unit trained to defend strategic island chains in the Pacific Ocean is going to be deployed to Okinawa. The move is part of an agreement between the US and Japan to ...