Japan’s cherry blossoms, a hallmark of spring, are expected to bloom on schedule this year, with Tokyo’s first flowers ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

It was assimilated into Japan in 1879. After World War II ... sites called "sanctuaries", where the founding god of the Ryukyu islands is worshipped. The most eye-opening site is a triangular ...

Through nuclear genome research, Chinese scientists have recently discovered that people from the Ryukyu Islands have ancestral roots in Shandong province. The research team led by Fu Qiaomei from ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba jetted off to the U.S. Thursday to discuss a changed security and economic landscape ...

The Kyodo agency reported, citing sources familiar with Japanese-American relations, that in response to growing tensions around Taiwan, the United States plans to open temporary bases on the Japanese ...

The last we heard from the Japanese singer and sometime video game composer Ichiko Aoba was on 2020’s album Windswept Adan, a science-fiction tale set on a far-future version of the Ryukyu archipelago ...

“So, the women blended traditional Ryukyu and Japanese styles ... were captured from the perspective of people from Japan’s main islands. “Back then, cameras and film were not commonly ...

Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would ... was then the independent kingdom of Ryukyu in 1879. Chinese state media ...

Kyushu is home to Sakurajima, the most active volcano in Japan Kyushu ... lush tropical islands are dotted about that once were part of their own kingdom of the so-called ‘Ryukyu’s’ not ...