Okinawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the Ryukyu Islands with a geographic area of 2,280 km² (880 sq mi). Naha is its capital and largest city, with other major cities including Okinawa, Uruma, and Urasoe.
Okinawa Prefecture encompasses two thirds of the Ryukyu Islands, including the Okinawa, Daitō and Sakishima groups, extending 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) southwest from the Satsunan Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to Taiwan. Okinawa Prefecture’s largest island, Okinawa Island, is the smallest, and southernmost of the Japan's main islands and home to a majority of the population.
Okinawa Prefecture’s indigenous ethnic group are the Ryukyuan people, who also live in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture.
These fascinating color photos were taken by Jim Roger Webb that show street scenes of Okinawa from 1970 to 1972.
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| East West Gift Shop |
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| Baby in the car |
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| Bingata production line |
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| Burned cars |
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| Bus driver |
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| Candy market |
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| Cute little girls |
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| Doll factory |
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| Doll making factory |
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| Flower lady |
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| Fresh meat |
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| Fresh octopus and squid at Kokusai market seafood |
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| Glass factory. Huge mountain of unsorted soda bottles, soon to be recycled into something beautiful |
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| Glass factory. Wrapping up the finished product |
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| Kokusai poultry market |
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| Living dolls |
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| Naha Civil Air Terminal |
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| Naha. A group of girls in their school uniforms walking on Kokusai Street |
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| Naha. Kokusai Dori Street |
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| Naha. Wakamatsu Street |
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| Naha. Wakamatsu Street |
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| Naha. Wakamatsu Street |
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| Nakagusuku Castle walls |
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| Ryukyuan dancers at Obon Festival |
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| Somebody important (presumably) |
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| Somewhere in Naha |
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| Standard day-to-day dress for the Okinawan business men |
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| Street musician |
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| The beautiful bride and her bridesmaids |
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| The gardener |
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| The groom and his family |
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| The women of Wakamatsu |
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| Three wheeling |
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| Todoroki Waterfall |
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