From classic sights to lesser-known gems and transport tips to seasonal highlights, here’s the lowdown on visiting Japan.

Exterior of a residence at the Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Costa Rica.

Miyako is part of Okinawa prefecture. It then continued northeast up the Ryukyu island chain until reaching Amami Oshima, an island in Kagoshima prefecture, where it turned around and flew back to ...

Beijing claims these waters and maritime features under its Ten Dash Line map. “We share the common ... particularly around the Ryukyu Islands, a Japanese archipelago that includes Okinawa.

Takara, an expert on Ryukyu history, pointed out that Okinawa once had active exchanges with China as the Ryukyu Kingdom. It conducted tribute trade with the Ming Dynasty of China. He also said ...

5, which was 11 days earlier than an average year, according to Weathernews. Hikanzakura, also known as Ryukyu kanhinzakura, are the most common type of cherry trees on the island. The Japan ...

Forget Tokyo and Kyoto. This 2025, discover an unseen side of Japan on the remote Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa, which will soon be home to Rosewood’s first Japanese property. Rosewood Miyakojima ...

A family sorting through their late father's Massachusetts attic came across artifacts plundered from Japan during WWII. The FBI has returned them.

The United States has returned twenty-two historic artifacts to Japan that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the FBI said.

Germplasm resources are the source of herbal medicine production. The cultivation of superior germplasm resources helps to resolve the conflict between long-term population persistence and growing ...

Island arcs are postulated as the juvenile components that contribute to the growth of continental crust. Growth rates of arc crusts were previously computed using crustal thicknesses derived from ...

The ancestors of Japanese who settled in the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago were likely “explorers” from Taiwan who had a clear destination in mind, a group of researchers said.