From the 15th to 19th Centuries, this southernmost prefecture of Japan formed most of the Ryukyu Kingdom, a thriving tributary state that flourished by building trade relations with neighbouring ...

URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Vandals spray painted graffiti on a mausoleum for Ryukyu Kingdom royalty here, known as “Urasoe Yodore,” officials said. The mausoleum is located in the Urasoe ...

NAHA -- Two posthumous painted portraits of rulers of the Ryukyu Kingdom -- now Japan's Okinawa Prefecture -- have been returned after being discovered in the United States, the Okinawa ...

Okinawa Prefecture, home of the Ryukyu Kingdom that was incorporated into Japan in the late 19th century, provides a time capsule of dialects that are in the brink of dying out in the modern age.

A Ryūkyū man dressed in a traditional bashōfu (芭蕉布 / banana plant cloth) kimono lies on the beach looking out to the sea. As he lies there, we witness the passage of time on the islands.

Okinawa Prefecture, previously the independent Ryukyu Kingdom, was annexed by Japan in 1879, and the Diaoyu Islands were not included in that annexation. "Japan calls these islands inherent ...

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 ...

Okinawa is Japan's southernmost prefecture. Once an independent Ryukyu Kingdom, this beautiful chain of subtropical islands has its own traditions of dance, crafts, music, and karate. The ancient ...

Japan's southernmost islands of Okinawa were once ruled by the independent kingdom of Ryukyu. The kingdom prospered through trade with its more powerful neighbors, maintaining diplomatic relations ...