YAESE, Okinawa Prefecture--Mitsuo Matsunaga crawled inch by inch through a hole just large enough for an adult to fit through and descended two meters or so down a slope using a ladder and rope.

YAESE, Okinawa Prefecture--Born in the year of Okinawa's reversion to Japan in 1972, a locally handcrafted wooden doll with a cylindrical body is enjoying a rebirth after nearly being left for ...