The Sakishima Islands, a portion of the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, are located between Okinawa and Taiwan with a population ...

It is one of the more remarkable facts of Taiwan history that it was never occupied or claimed by any of the numerous ...

Longevity travel is the buzzword of the moment. This surging trend has seen people exploring how to extend their lifespan, looking to the Blue Zone countries for guidance.

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

NHK has learned that the remains of some 20 people believed to have died in World War Two have been found on Iejima Island in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. This is the first discovery of its ...

But do blue zone residents really live longer? Or is their legendary lifespan more myth than science? “People [in blue zones] reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates than in the United States,” ...

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts just opened its first resort in Japan—on Okinawa's Miyako Island—and Travel + Leisure was the first in.

“I want people to think about how Japanese society ... Ota survived the bloody Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II as a student corpsman. Even after the war, he objected to the ...

The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture's Sakishima Islands to eight ...

As US troops were trying to clear caves of hidden Japanese defenders, the two civilians, like so many on Okinawa, were caught in the crossfire. They would be among the estimated 240,000 people ...