NAHA In a photo from a historic day 50 years ago, an elderly woman is holding in her suntanned hand a new 10,000-yen bill with a portrait of Prince Shotoku printed on it.
Seizing on the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japan, the local branch of Japan Post Co. will put 246 kinds of Ryukyu Islands postage stamps on public display for the first time this summer.
NAHA A pair of “Nio” Buddhist deity statues that stood guard at Enkakuji temple here from the 15th century until their destruction in World War II have been restored in a six-year project.