| Located at the southern end of Japan, Okinawa Prefecture taking a very important role in the politics and the economy, Naha City is the capital, Shuri that is still strongly reminiscent of an ancient city that flourished from the Ryukyu Dynasty and Okinawa City of "Koza" culture with a mixture of various cultures. Okinawa also has areas and isolated islands with the atmosphere of the Southern resorts and areas with historic relics of the miserable war. Centered on the culture of the Ryukyu Dynasty that thrived for a long time of four and a half centuries, Okinawa shaped its own culture interwoven with Japanese, Western and Chinese cultures. |