In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on ...

Five paddlers completed a journey from Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, across some of the world's fastest oceanic currents, ...

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s ...

More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

A former Japanese military chief has warned that Beijing’s increasingly assertive moves around disputed islands in the East China Sea could be setting the stage for a Chinese landing operation ...

Sapporo – The Hokkaido government has announced that memorial services at sea will be held between July 20 and Aug. 21 for former residents of the four Russian-held northwestern Pacific islands ...

It's quiet here in the morning. From outside my low-walled villa, a scratchy shuffle, like boots on cornflakes, begins the day on Taketomi Island, a speck in Okinawa's sprawling Yaeyama archipelago.

It's quiet here in the morning. From outside my low-walled villa, a scratchy shuffle, like boots on cornflakes, begins the day on Taketomi Island, a speck in Okinawa's sprawling Yaeyama archipelago.

It's quiet here in the morning. From outside my low-walled villa, a scratchy shuffle, like boots on cornflakes, begins the day on Taketomi Island, a speck in Okinawa's sprawling Yaeyama archipelago.

The island lies 1,080km south of Tokyo but only has 9.44 square metres of land above water, and that is only because it has been raised with concrete blocks. Nevertheless, the atoll is Japan’s ...

Located 60 km off the north-western coast of Kyushu Island, the Island of Okinoshima is an exceptional repository of records of early ritual sites, bearing witness to early worship practices ...