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Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon.

TOKYO -- A jungle theme park will open in Okinawa in July, a grand bid to attract Asian visitors to Japan's southernmost prefecture amid a heated tourist boom. Junglia Okinawa opens July 25 ...

Junglia Okinawa, a new theme park in northern Okinawa ... known as the mastermind behind the turnaround of the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka Prefecture. According to estimates ...

A Louisiana aquarium has a new star — and a mystery — on its hands after a baby shark was born in a habitat without any males. The Shreveport Aquarium announced last week that Yoko the swell ...

Walking through the glass tunnels feels like stepping into the ocean itself. Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Japan Osaka Aquarium in Japan is a captivating aquarium designed around the Pacific Rim’s ...

I set out on a 3 ½-week trip to Japan. The timing worked out — the ... the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living and the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, which travelers I met along the way raved about.

Beijing is believed to be sowing divisions in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture to better facilitate an invasion of Taiwan, British newspaper the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Less than 750km from Taiwan, ...

Iron Fist is scheduled Feb. 19 through March 7 at several locations, including the Marines’ Camp Hansen and Kin Blue Beach Training Area on Okinawa, according to a Japan Ground Self-Defense ...

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana kicked off 2025 with a mysterious birth. A swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup hatched at the facility on January 3, yet the two female sharks present ...

China is secretly trying to gain control in Japan, specifically in Okinawa, which is just 750 kilometres from Taiwan and hosts a significant US military presence of nearly 30,000 troops. Now, with ...

The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his ...