Okinawa Island
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Okinawa Island, also known as Okinawa Main Island, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. The island is approximately 106 kilometres long, an avera
Okinawa Island in January 2015
The first of the Ryukyuan missions to Edo, the capital of Tokugawa shogunate
The last King Shō Tai
American troops in Okinawa, 27 June 1945
Ryukyu Islands
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The Ryukyu Islands, also known as the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Arc, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. Administratively, they are divided between Kagoshi
Okinawa Island
…Uchinā; Kunigami: ふちなー, romanized: Fuchináa), also known as Okinawa Main Island (沖縄本島, Okinawa-hontō), is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. The island is approximately 106 kilometres (66 mi) long, an average 11 kilometres (7 mi) wide, and has…
Location of the Ryukyu Islands
The last sunset in Japan is seen from Yonaguni.
Okinawa Islands during the Sanzan Period
Ryukyu delegates in Ten Thousand Nations Coming to Pay Tribute (1761), which depicts foreign delegations in Beijing