35 Fascinating Photos Capture Street Scenes of Okinawa in the Early 1970s

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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.