Stone’s visit to Okinawa came at the end of a 12-day tour ... Stone followed “Platoon” with a string of blockbuster hits – including “Wall Street”, “JFK” and “Natural Born ...

Shuri Castle, a symbol of Okinawa, is the Ryukyu Kingdom's grandest gusuku dating back 450 years. Itokazu Gusuku Ruins Itokazu Castle has well preserved stone walls that are considered the largest ...

In 2020, Hoshinoya Okinawa (from $1,005 a night) opened in Yomitan village with protective local Gusuku stone walls, ocean panoramas and technicolor coral reefs out front. The 100 low-profile ...

sits on top of a hill overlooking the city of Naha - Okinawa's capital - and is surrounded by curved stone walls. One resident said the castle was seen as "god-like". "To us, the Shuri Castle is a ...

YOMITAN, Okinawa -- A cave that once became the site ... According to Chibana and others, the stone wall of a peace statue at the entrance of the cave was destroyed, a signboard nearby was pulled ...

Okinawa’s main tourist spots lie mainly ... Past Gokūiwa are the Stone Forest Wall, the Dragon King Rock, and other places of worship. Many devotional spots are concealed between the rocks ...

in the northeast of Okinawa. Stone, who served as an infantryman in the Vietnam war and subsequently directed films such as Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth, said in the ...

“We must end the discrimination and military colonization of Okinawa,” said the petitioners, who include filmmaker Oliver Stone. The petition urged President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime ...