With its laid-back seafaring culture and unique wildlife, the Yaeyama archipelago in Japan’s far southern Okinawa prefecture ...

Japanese forces tracked Chinese ships and aircraft transiting through Japan’s southwest region during the same period, while ...

BEIJING – China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million ...

The Marine Corps recently conducted its first live-fire training with a full detachment of helicopters operating from a sea-base ship near Okinawa, showcasing the flexibility of its expeditionary ...

Okinawa's "ShisaIs a legendary creature that is considered a source of lion. The fact that the lion is a feline animal ..... means that in a sense it is "Neko AtsumeAnd the tension went up. A lot of ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa — A 100-million-year-old reproductive ritual continued this week at this small Army installation on Okinawa’s western coast. A green sea turtle crawled ashore early Wednesday at ...

Many of the sea grapes on the market are contrary to their names and are not grown in the sea as natural or aquaculture, but are grown in land-based vinyl houses like fruits and vegetables. However, ...

In a panel on Pacific Islander filmmaking organized by the Hawai’i International Film Festival last year, a Native Hawaiian producer noted that fellow creatives in the region were “not divided by land ...

If you've ever dined on the tropical island of Okinawa, Japan, your plate may have been graced by a remarkable pile of seaweed, each strand adorned with tiny green bubbles. Known as umi-budo or sea ...

A salvage crew retrieved a large part of the crashed Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter from waters off Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 2. A ship of a private company commissioned by the ...

Okinawa residents held a protest at sea on Monday against land reclamation work for a US military base in Japan’s southernmost island prefecture. While the landfill work for moving US Marine Corps Air ...