In 2021, the island also inspired Bad Bunny's chart-topping reggaeton song, Yonaguni, in which the Puerto Rican rapper sings in both Spanish and Japanese. Home to Japan's so-called 'Atlantis' The ...

Escape the crowds and discover a quieter Japan at these 12 hotels, from mountaintop ryokan to island hideaways.

Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands and is not even the size of New York city’s central park.

A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs ... of livelihood for the island's tiny population of about 1,500 people. The island was once home to 12,000 people in the late ...

On a small island in southwestern Japan with a population of only around 1,700 ... Driven by his quest for good coffee and a desire to share a familiar taste of home, Widmer decided to open the cafe ...

By April 1945, with the war all but lost, Japan’s leadership sent Yamato on what amounted to a suicide mission to Okinawa, where the warship would be beached and used as fortress by defending ...

Residents’ fears are growing on Ishigakijima island in southwestern Japan that the government ... with a population of nearly 50,000, is now home to about 570 GSDF troops and about 260 of ...

One of those troubled towns is Ureshino. Tucked away in the mountain range of the Saga Prefecture, on the western island of ...

On April 1, 1946, a strong earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska set off a massive tsunami that hit the Hawaiian ...

Longevity travel is the buzzword of the moment. This surging trend has seen people exploring how to extend their lifespan, ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...