Perhaps nothing explains the complex relationship between the people of Okinawa, the U.S. military and the Japanese government better than Shurijo Castle, Okinawa’s greatest cultural site. At the end ...
TOKYO (AP) — A fire broke out early this morning and spread quickly through historic Shuri Castle on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site. Firefighters ...
Tomás Pinheiro describes the recent renovation of one of Okinawa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites after a devastating fire in 2019, as well as the history of reconstructions that this castle has ...
On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without ...