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Declassified diplomatic documents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2010, at the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Record Office in Tokyo shows diplomatic documents declassified the same day. Some of the documents relate to a Japan-U.S. campaign to sway in 1968 the first public election for the head of the Ryukyu government, or Okinawa, then under U.S. rule.

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Gov't to remember WWII victims of battles off Kyushu

NAHA, Japan - A ship carrying about 470 bereaved family members of the victims of U.S. naval attacks during World War II near islands between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures leave Naha port Nov. 29, 2001. They will take part in a series of government-sponsored memorial services to mourn for people who were on some 130 ships sunk by U.S. submarines around the Ryukyu Islands.

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Gov't to remember WWII victims of battles off Kyushu

NAHA, Japan - A ship carrying about 470 bereaved family members of the victims of U.S. naval attacks during World War II near islands between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures leave Naha port Nov. 29, 2001. They will take part in a series of government-sponsored memorial services to mourn for people who were on some 130 ships sunk by U.S. submarines around the Ryukyu Islands.

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Living in the Ground

High school students from Okinawa came to Shizuoka to study agricultural technology as part of their school trip. A farming camp was held at Nagahama Agricultural High School in Shiga Prefecture. High school students from Okinawa come to Shizuoka to study agricultural techniques and for a school trip; scenes of life at a training camp for rural life in Shiga Prefecture. Students eating curry and rice, Uchijiro's home in Shinshu taking in and caring for five handicapped children, helping with various farm work, date of shooting unknown, release date: November 21, 1958.

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With the Return to the Motherland in Mind

Chobyo Yara, the new head of the Ryukyu government, visited Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at the Prime Minister's Office and made a strong appeal for the immediate return of Okinawa to Japan. The next day, he greeted Governor Minobe on his election and began his energetic activities as the first innovative leader. Mr. Yara visits Prime Minister Sato and talks with Governor Minobe, Date of shooting unknown, Release date: December 13, 1968.

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Okinawa papers rap Abe's fellow lawmakers over anti-media remarks

Kazuhiko Taketomi (L), editor-in-chief of the Okinawa Times, and Yoshikazu Shiohira, editor-in-chief of The Ryukyu Shimpo, speak at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 2, 2015. They also spoke at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and rapped some lawmakers of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party for calling for pressure to be applied to media critical of the government, including the two Okinawa papers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer Hyakuta under fire over remarks on newspapers

Photo shows the June 26, 2015, editions of The Okinawa Times and The Ryukyu Shimpo, two major newspapers in Okinawa Prefecture, reporting on remarks by Japanese writer Naoki Hyakuta that two Okinawa newspapers that are critical of the government should be "destroyed." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Declassified diplomatic documents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2010, at the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Record Office in Tokyo shows diplomatic documents declassified the same day. Some of the documents relate to a Japan-U.S. campaign to sway in 1968 the first public election for the head of the Ryukyu government, or Okinawa, then under U.S. rule. (Kyodo)