My first glimpse of Koza was a burned out car on a monochrome print I picked up at a recycle shop in Naha. I would see the image again when I visited the history section of the Okinawa City Hall ...

Deadheads shuffle to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Japanese rock fanatics come to Koza City—the home of heavy rock. The town changed its name to Okinawa City in 1974, but to locals and music lovers ...

Okinawa City is pleased to announce that it has created a promotional video, titled "Chim Don Don KOZA," to introduce at home and abroad a wide variety of tourist attractions that the exotic ...

At 1 a.m. on Dec. 20, 1970, a minor traffic accident involving a drunken American driver and an Okinawan pedestrian in Koza (present-day city of Okinawa) sparked the largest anti-U.S. riot the ...

OKINAWA CITY, Okinawa — A rare joint patrol of the ... began at 10 p.m. in the Gate 2 Street entertainment district near Koza Music Town. It was the first of several planned patrols in response ...

The play is set against the backdrop of a riot that broke out on the night of Dec. 20, 1970, in the city of Okinawa, which was then called Koza ... into contemporary Japan and its culture.