Seven minutes away is Euglena Mall, a shopping arcade reminiscent of Kokusai-Dori in style and offerings, albeit smaller.

Cute but not cuddly, a colony of sea squirts dubbed “Skeleton panda ascidian” by divers after being discovered in waters off Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a new species. The sea ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Based on the design of the F/A-18 Hornet, the EA-18G Growler is one of the best aircraft for its particular mission set in ...

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts just opened its first resort in Japan—on Okinawa's Miyako Island—and Travel + Leisure was the first in.

At the end of World War Two, Yoshida Susumu's father Takeo died when his ship sank in Okinawa. Now, 80 years later, Yoshida is still hoping to find his remains. He knows where the ship sank and he ...

The sea area around the bay has corals of global ... the prefecture submitted 91 questions about the environmental impact to the Okinawa Defense Bureau. It asked about the potential damage to ...

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 ...

In many ways, Okinawa is another world unto itself, a mystical side of Japan not only in terms of historical significance but also in food and way of life. The sun, sea and sand may resonate with ...