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Okinawa
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The people of Okinawa boast the highest concentration of centenarians recorded anywhere on Earth.
62 days ago
‘Letting the sound happen around you’: powerful sonic memorial remembers the dead ⊖⊖
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has created a sound installation emulating second world war spaces: a Japanese internment camp in California and caves used as bunkers in Okinawa
In 1945, during the Battle of O…
4 months ago
Japan PM vows ‘resolute’ response after Chinese aircraft accused of locking radar on to Japanese fighter jets ⊖
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China’s ambassador summoned over alleged weekend incident that saw Chinese J-15 fighter aircraft twice train their radar on Japanese F-15s
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to “respond…
Playwright Jeremy O Harris arrested in Japan for alleged drug smuggling ⊖⊖
The writer of the Tony award-nominated Slave Play remains in custody after authorities say they found MDMA in his bag
American actor and playwright Jeremy O Harris, known for the Tony-nominated Slave …
Inside the group of islands with the world's longest-living women ○
The Okinawa islands in Japan have several residents who are centenarians and researchers have long studied why.
8 months ago
Japan: Girl Meets War ○
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Shurina, cast as a kamikaze pilot in a play, travels to WWII memorial sites across Japan for a performance in Okinawa.
9 months ago
Cramps, fatigue and hallucinations: paddling 200km in a Paleolithic canoe from Taiwan to Japan ○
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The team battled a notoriously strong current and used the stars as their guide to reach an island in an unstable vessel made of Japanese cedar
Dr Yousuke Kaifu was working at an archaeological site o…
10 months ago
The Bone Hunter: unearthing the horror of war in Okinawa - documentary ○
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Peace activist Takamatsu Gushiken, 71, searches for the remains of people who were killed during the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest chapters in the second world war. As the US seeks to bolst…
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? ○
A quarter of Okinawan civilians died – many after being told to kill themselves, or from starvation. But the hunt for their remains is being complicated by some modern-day inhabitants: tens of thousa…
Four Japanese soldiers injured in explosion at US base in Okinawa ○
The blast occurred while the soldiers, who specialise in handling explosives, were working at the storage facility for unexploded World War II ordnance, authorities said.