Okinawa Prefecture, home of the Ryukyu Kingdom that was incorporated into ... islands prior to the Nara Period (710-784). As far fewer people now converse in these dialects, UNESCO designated ...

A security camera installed by the board of education captured several people visiting the site on the morning of Oct. 3 writing graffiti on the walls and other surfaces. The Ryukyu Kingdom ruled ...

Five hundred years of Ryukyuan history (12th-17th century) are represented by this group of sites and monuments. The ruins of the castles, on imposing elevated sites, are evidence for the social ...

We have our own kingdom.” Chibi refers to the Ryukyu Kingdom, a once-independent maritime state that governed these South Pacific islands for centuries before Japan annexed it in the late 19th ...

Finally a man carrying water passes by, followed by other people representative of times past: market vendors, peasants, the red-cheeked god dancing at a matsuri (festival). But as the film ...