In a picture shot around 1944, the year before the island was devastated by the Battle of Okinawa, young women are shown glazing earthenware at a workshop in Naha’s Tsuboya district, home to ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

Women on the island have said ... occurred in other places where U.S. forces landed, including the main island of Okinawa and Iejima island. However, the entire picture of the suicides remains ...

Royal women performed rituals and a kikoeokimi ... pointing to the eclectic pottery creations on the island as proof. In many ways, Okinawa is another world unto itself, a mystical side of ...