Both women wear kimono, but in different styles ... a researcher of the history of dyeing technology at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum. Under the direction of the central government ...

Fall in love with the food, culture, nature, and people while exploring cities such as Tokyo, Nikko, and Okinawa.

If you're travelling this new year, these intimate wellness retreats in Japan will help usher in a new era of self-care for starting fresh.

If you're travelling this new year, these intimate wellness retreats in Japan will help usher in a new era of self-care for starting fresh.

And this particular image of her in an alluring silk kimono had been specially chosen ... She had been a barmaid in the Japanese city of Okinawa and was living on Anatahan with her husband until ...

Reported incidents of unruly tourists included a maiko’s kimono being torn and another having cigarette butt put in her collar. A maiko is an apprentice geisha. Kyoto bans tourists from taking ...

Editor’s Note: There will be some spoilers for the first two episodes of the OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She’s Saying anime below. So OKITSURA’s ...

Okinawan women had to toil just as hard as their husbands to sustain their families, for at least as far back as when their island was an independent kingdom, pictures taken in prewar years show.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Japanese motorcyclist was killed early New Year’s Day in a two-vehicle collision involving a U.S. Marine, according to Japanese police. The 22-year-old Marine from ...

Over 2,500 people staged a rally in the city of Okinawa on Sunday to protest against sexual assaults on local girls and women by U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa Prefecture. They adopted a ...

The Okinawa diet is based on a traditional style of eating that people living in Japan’s Okinawa islands follow. This diet generally includes foods that are low in calories, with a lot of emphasis on ...