Work has yet to begin at about 30 per cent of priority heritage sites nearly 7 years after the blaze that destroyed Okinawa’s Shuri Castle.

For others, Songkran signals something else entirely: a chance to travel and escape the searing, scalding April heat here. For the latter, here’s a guide on where to travel out of Thailand this ...

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USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

Okinawa's historic Shuri Castle once stood at the heart of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Now, seven years after a devastating fire, reconstruction work is entering the final stages, including some intriguing ...

For nearly three decades, Washington and Tokyo have pledged to close a controversial US airbase in Okinawa, located in the middle of a densely populated island. But the plan is now facing new ...

A recent Pentagon statement that it will not return Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Japan until it provides an alternate runway of similar length is not a change from the original agreement, ...

The 5,000 U.S. Marines and 1,300 dependents now stationed in Okinawa should stay there, and the $6.2 billion Marine facilities on Guam could be used by the Army. That’s the proposal put forward last ...

Okinawa is one of the world’s Blue Zones, where a population has a life expectancy much higher than the global average. The traditional Okinawan diet consists primarily of whole plant foods, with less ...

Tadaaki Miyagi runs Burikina, an organic coffee farm in Nago, a city on the Motobu Peninsula that juts out from the northwest corner of Okinawa Prefecture’s main island. After he registered his lot ...