Sitting closer to Taiwan than Japan's mainland, it's a 40-minute ferry ride from Ishigaki Island where you will ... small corner of the world. Guided tours for this spectacle can help visitors ...

Ishigaki Island is located about 400km southwest of Okinawa Prefecture's main island, surrounded by a sea of coral reefs. 50,000 people live on the island. Once, many came to the island in search ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s Naha and Ishigaki are among the top ports of call in Japan for international cruise ... perhaps that’s just how laidback the island is, but you won’t exactly feel ...

The Ishigaki base is part of a belated effort by the GSDF to create a bulwark across an island chain that stretches more than 1,000 kilometers from Japan’s mainland. During the Cold War ...