To fully embrace the culture of Okinawa, Japan's only subtropical ... a location where many people live to 100 years of age or beyond. There's even a popular old Japanese saying that translates ...

People in this country believe that growing old is fun - and they reach staggering ages thanks to a traditional way of life ...

The population of this island live to a remarkable old age, with women in particular reaching the age of 100 with astonishing ...

In all, 1280 remains of Japanese war-dead, including six on Okinawa, have been identified by DNA tests since 2003, the health ministry said. The remains of around 14,000 people are stored in the ...

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.’ ...

Okinawa in Japan is a Blue Zone - one of five places in the world where people live longer and healthier than anywhere else on the planet. But what's the secret to their long and healthy lives?

Since then, Miyagi, a 75-year-old researcher ... Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest ground battle of the Pacific War. The death toll was around 200,000 people, including American and Japanese ...

The remains of some 1,400 people found on Okinawa sit ... mobilized by the Japanese during the war, may yet be found, Gushiken says. Locating and identifying decades-old remains have become ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back ... no businesses use the soroban to calculate, but I want people to know that this tool existed,” Arakaki said.