US president-elect Donald Trump pressured Japan to pay more for American troops stationed on its soil during his first term ...

Blue oceans, sunny skies, warm hospitality. Okinawa Japan is a subtropical paradise best explored on a luxury cruise around ...

Travelling in the southern tip of Japan can be gloriously slow or boisterously jolly as one explores the many attractions of ...

This article uncovers the top 10 things to do in Okinawa. Unleash the excitement by visiting the prefecture's historic sites ...

A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

Training in karate was not always easy for Nobuko Oshiro, who faced bullying and harsh treatment from her instructors as one ...

While only one "true" Kingdom Hearts exists, it is possible to forcibly form artificial Kingdom Hearts from a union of a vast collection of hearts. However, these consolidations are, but small-scale ...

1893 Sep.15 The first newspaper in Okinawa, the Ryukyu Shimpo, is published for the first time, the president being Jun Sho, and Chofu Ota the editor-in-chief. The Paper had a four-page format, ...

The situation was likened to the actual disposition of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in which the Meiji government dissolved the Ryukyu domain and formed Okinawa Prefecture. In his first campaign speech he ...

Withdraw US troops from the Ryukyu Islands! The Ryukyu Islands do not belong to Japan, they are Chinese territory!" Okinawa was once the centre of the Ryukyuan kingdom, which paid tribute to Chinese ...