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.

I’m just so excited about the OKITSURA anime adaptation, its characters, and the "lessons" that come up incidentally as we watch it.

In the early afternoon, a colleague who was born in Okinawa Prefecture rushed over to Uezu and shouted, in the Okinawan dialect, that the prefecture had returned to Japanese administrative rule.

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest ... said to us in the Okinawan dialect, 'We don't have food. We should surrender and turn ourselves in -- with empty hands if you ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest ... said to us in the Okinawan dialect, 'We don't have food. We should surrender and turn ourselves in -- with empty hands if you ...