Thank goodness, because I found a luxury burger spot – the Ishigaki Island Kitchen Bin in Chatan town – that rekindled its griddle in July after 2½ years of COVID-19 closure. This burger shop ...

Ishigaki Island is not such a little island, nor anymore quite so remote, though it lays a full 2,000 km southwest of Tokyo. Its distances are of a different kind. Location allowed it to ...

Ishigaki Island is just 100 miles east of Taiwan and about 100 miles south of the highly disputed Senkaku Islands, putting it in a volatile yet strategic geographic position. Such a move will ...

Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki Island as a crucial final component in the country’s line of defense against China. But residents of the island ...

ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture--The incumbent ... plan to deploy the Ground Self-Defense Forces (GSDF) on the island, near residential areas, to bolster defense of the region. Nakayama has voiced ...