Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Okinawa, Japan, has an unusually high rate of people living past 100. One key to Okinawa's Blue Zone status is the region's ...

Don’t expect to find yakitori at a typical Okinawa restaurant. Or sushi. Japan’s southernmost prefecture has its own unique food culture, the result of both its location and complex history. The ...

Okinawa is famous today for its pristine waters, gaudy Orion beer T-shirts, stone lions and dishes such as taco rice, but in centuries past it was better known as the centre of the independent Ryukyu ...