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Okinawa offers a slower, more soulful side of Japan that blends tropical escape with cultural depth. View Entire Post › ...

It’s show time. Up heaves the sail, a concertina of heavy canvas pulled taut against the creaking wooden mast. It gulps the breeze that’s whisking cotton puffs of cloud out to sea. Black butterflies, ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s show time. Up heaves the sail, a concertina of heavy canvas pulled taut against the creaking wooden mast. It gulps the breeze that ...

The incumbent mayor and two challengers filed their candidacies on Sunday for the Jan. 25 mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, which will focus on the planned relocation of a U.S. military ...

Russian surveillance ship Kareliya (535) seemingly concluded a two-week surveillance mission around Japan’s southwest region ...

The turquoise water lapping against Okinawa's pebbled beach is so clear that you can see an occasional parrotfish streaking by. Just behind it, the Hoshinoya Okinawa's low-slung modernist villas blend ...

Mie Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi announces that the prefecture is considering halting hiring foreign staff, at the prefectural headquarters in Tsu on Dec. 25, 2025. (Mainichi/Masaya Shibuya) Several Mie ...

An earthquake, which was initially reported to be of magnitude 6.3 but later downgraded, struck Japan’s Shimane prefecture on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck Shimane Prefecture in western Japan on Tuesday, with no tsunami warning issued, the country's weather agency said. The temblor occurred at ...

Manicured orchard rows fan out before me, branches heavy with picture-book apples in glistening lipstick red. Between the succession of trunks, tufts of grass are tickled by breeze; in the sky above, ...