The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first megaquake advisory, covering 707 municipalities from Okinawa to Ibaraki ... Kagoshima and Kumamoto prefectures due to falling objects.

Japan’s cruise market is set to expand as more Japanese companies place orders for new ships, which are all expected to enter ...

According to the JR Pass survey, Japan's best budget-friendly cities combine affordable travel, delicious dining, and top ...

of ocean – roughly the distance between Taipei and the US military base in Okinawa. The feat, detailed in a May study published in Acta Acustica, China’s premier acoustic journal, marks ...

Japan’s top budget-friendly cities — ranked by the JR Pass survey — offer great travel, excellent dining, and attractions at ...

Minamata disease was discovered in the 1950s among residents who consumed marine products tainted with organic mercury discharged from a chemical factory into Minamata Bay, Kumamoto Prefecture.

And to prove this point is Yaeyama Kyori Beef, a cattle ranch in the pristine Yaeyama Islands, southwest of Okinawa. It is Japan’s first branded Wagyu beef produced solely by calf breeders ...

A scholar's note related to a secret nuclear pact on Okinawa's reversion from US rule will be donated to the prefecture. The five-page missive by Wakaizumi Kei is dated June 23, 1994, and ...

The Naha Family Court in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture allowed the siblings in September to create a Japanese family registry after it confirmed that their father was a Japanese citizen and ruled ...

Police have arrested a 20-year-old U.S. Marine stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Prefecture after allegedly fleeing the scene of a car crash that injured four people, including two elementary ...

It was a desperate plea from a boy that prevented a mass suicide on a remote island in Okinawa Prefecture when U.S. forces landed 80 years ago. On March 26, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa began with ...

Japanese media have reported that U.S. Marine Corps troops who began relocating from Okinawa to Guam late last year will begin moving to the barracks at Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz in June.