During times of uncertainty, ikigai provides stability and guidance, serving as a compass with four points, which directs us ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

As Japan’s popularity soars, many travelers want to experience the country beyond the usual crowded hotspots. I’ve been on ...

My daughter shared with me the following quote recorded in an obscure Congressional floor speech before Congress by the late John Lewis (origin unknown). “I only have a minute, sixty seconds in it.

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten since World War II.

Snorkel, explore caves and dine on one of Japan’s rarest wagyu in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Visiting Okinawa, I was struck by how much it didn't feel like I was in Japan. Not only are the vast majority of buildings made of concrete, but they are designed in a unique Okinawan way.

In essence, he was suggesting that the day when Japanese citizens could die in war was not far off, and the first battleground would likely be Okinawa.

Now living in Penticton since 2018, Jomphe is the author of Sailing Back to Life, a 300-page memoir detailing her family’s two-year journey on the open sea.

Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to the Cornerstone of Peace monument.