We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but ...

Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped ...

Ogimi Village in Okinawa became known as one of the world’s Blue Zones, where people routinely lived past 100. Residents ...

The New York Times published its “52 Places to Go in 2026” on January 5, and featured Nagasaki as its 17th destination ...

Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped ...

The beaches aren’t for swimming and visitors rent EVs on this southern Japanese island, where tourism authorities are trying ...

Airline operator ANA Holdings Inc. is considering offering automated drone delivery services by March 2029, company officials ...

A 5-hectare portion of the U.S. military’s Camp Foster — also known as Camp Zukeran — in Okinawa Prefecture is expected to be returned to Japan as early as fiscal 2026, which begins in April, several ...

The New York Times put Nagasaki in 17th place on a list it has released every year since 2005, and Okinawa was 46th.

NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Nagasaki and Okinawa have been selected for The New York Times’ list of “52 places to go in ...

Japan's Nagasaki and Okinawa have been selected for The New York Times' list of "52 places to go in 2026." The U.S. daily placed the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki 17th on the list. The newspaper ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday approved a government plan to increase state funds provided for the development of Okinawa Prefecture by ¥500 million from the previous year to ¥264.7 ...