The birthplace of karate also holds a deeply rooted connection to spirituality and nature. Here’s how to plan a visit to this ...

The ‘art island’ of Naoshima ... menu featuring local Agu pork shabu-shabu and soba noodles. Take in Okinawa’s famed beaches and sign up for a tour of rural Higashi-son, an isolated village ...

Japan's coast guard says it has dispatched a patrol vessel to rescue an injured crewmember of a Chinese survey ship in the ...

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Credit: Cristian Martini Grimaldi In the Kerama Islands, just off the coast of Okinawa Prefecture’s main island ... of rape, fed by Japanese military propaganda, spread from house to house ...

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Central and Okinawa prefectural government officials participated in the exercise, which involved evacuating residents of the Sakishima islands located southwest of the main Okinawa island and ...

I have a thing for ferries. Not the stomach-churning Devon to France crossings as a kid in the UK, bunged in the back of a ...

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Stories Behind the Stars founder says the pace of stories being written has doubled since 2000 but the group still needs more ...

For more than 70 years, the Cannes Film Festival has been synonymous with sex, and we can credit an 18-year-old Brigitte Bardot for bringing them together. Bizarrely, though, this had nothing to do ...