Someone told me visiting this “blue zone” full of people over 100 years old would make me live longer. They lied.
Bans on the anesthetic-turned-street-drug come amid seizures, hospitalizations and a trafficking pipeline stretching from ...
Stars and Stripes’ history goes back well before the Pacific arena. The first issue can be traced to Nov. 1, 1861, in ...
USS New Mexico fought from Alaska to the Philippines, bombarding islands, shielding landings, and absorbing punishment that ...
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Watching 90-year-olds hike hills and laugh over lentils made me question how I was living my own life. A few years ago, I stumbled across a documentary about “Blue Zones” -- those rare pockets in the ...
The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st-century Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a ...
Inside a small tatami room just outside the center of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, a quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining ...
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A sexual assault case involving a US marine has reignited anger over the long-standing impunity and marginalisation faced by Okinawans under the US–Japan security alliance. Despite persistent ...
TOKYO -- Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said Monday that it ...
On April 1, 1945, thousands of American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a heavily fortified Pacific island to the south of Japan. Nearly three months later, the United States claimed victory ...