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Yonaguni, the southernmost speck in the Okinawa archipelago, sits 509 km from Taipei and 1,925 km from Tokyo. Most Japan trips treat the prefecture as a long-weekend appendage, three days slotted in after a week of Honshu and Kyoto. That’s the mistake. Okinawa is its own country in everything but the passport: 47 inhabited islands, … Read more