Player’s Café is a classy yet unpretentious bar and restaurant in Koza, a formerly distressed area of central Okinawa. The establishment offers food, drinks and lodging in an up-and-coming urban ...

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, ...

It's October 2009, and I'm sitting in the parking lot of a convenience store in Koza city, taking photographs of the sidewalk. I've been here for close to an hour — surrounded by a dozen old ...