From Hawaii's Papakōlea Beach to Butiama Beach in Tanzania to Reynisfjara in Iceland, there are many incredible beaches all over the world. The new National Geographic book,100 B ...

With a roll of his shoulders and a flick of his tail, Musashi starts his plodding journey across the sand flats. My journey ...

The first formal forum between U.S. military and Okinawan leaders is set to convene May 9, a move proposed last year in ...

I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of ...

Okinawa hosts the majority of the approximately 54,000 US troops stationed in Japan. While the military presence has long been a point of tension for residents, recent high-profile assaults have ...

Two shells were unearthed in Okinawa’s capital, Naha, city officials said. The first was discovered March 3 in the Shuri district and removed without evacuations March 18 by the Japan Ground ...

Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, stated at the conference, “Developing northern Okinawa is essential for the Japanese government” expressing hopes that Junglia Okinawa will “boost the ...

This is our review of The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa resort. Keen to promote destinations outside Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan Airlines sent me to Okinawa ... and international tourists seeking out ...

This year's tour by the reigning emperor and empress is set to continue in June with a visit to Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, where the Battle of Okinawa caused the deaths of about ...

But the journey was not without its setbacks. With no map, they mistook Miyazaki in southeastern Kyushu for Shikoku, Japan’s fourth-biggest island, which is linked by bridges to the country’s ...

Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II, the threat of unexploded ordnance still looms over the prefecture. Despite decades ...