On the morning of October 31, 2019, people in Japan (and perhaps the rest of the world) awoke to learn that Okinawa's Shuri Castle, the seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1429 to 1879 and a World Heritage site, had suffered a horrendous fire. It took more than ten hours to extinguish the flames. The … Continue reading Shuri Castle: rising from the ashes