With overtourism putting pressure on major cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan is increasingly crowded—making lesser-known destinations such as Okinawa a refreshing alternative.This subtropical ...

June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle, while citizens reflected over long-lost loved ones and a promise by a ...

On April 1, 1945, thousands of American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a heavily fortified Pacific island to the south of Japan. Nearly three months later, the United States claimed victory ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has rejected as “ineligible” a request from Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki to fund new filters designed to remove “forever chemicals” from a major water purification plant in ...

Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance. On June 4, 2023, Xi Jinping visited a national archive in Beijing where he ...

The beaches aren’t for swimming and visitors rent EVs on this southern Japanese island, where tourism authorities are trying to redefine what it means to be green. The Hoshinoya Okinawa, as seen from ...