More than six years after Shuri Castle burned down, resilient reconstruction efforts are on schedule to allow the main hall to reopen in the fall. But the park remains open to visitors while ...

Among the historical sites in Okinawa, Japan, Shuri Castle (首里城) stands out as a representative relic. Before 1879, when ...

Work has yet to begin at about 30 per cent of priority heritage sites nearly 7 years after the blaze that destroyed Okinawa's ...

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USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship ...

Tripadvisor has revealed its top trending destinations for 2026, and two Asian spots made the global top 20. Here’s why Vietnam’s Quy Nhon and Japan’s Okinawa City are rising fast.

Okinawa's historic Shuri Castle once stood at the heart of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Now, seven years after a devastating fire, ...

After the flight, Okinawa felt friendly and laid back. The highlights included the famous (unfortunately fire-damaged) Shuri castle ruins, the Zuizen Awamori distillery tour (yes, samples), glass ...

The broad anti-base alliance that has shaped Okinawa’s politics for nearly a decade is reeling after a bruising election defeat, raising questions about the future of organised resistance to the US ...

For nearly three decades, Washington and Tokyo have pledged to close a controversial US airbase in Okinawa, located in the middle of a densely populated island. But the plan is now facing new ...

A recent Pentagon statement that it will not return Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Japan until it provides an alternate runway of similar length is not a change from the original agreement, ...

The 5,000 U.S. Marines and 1,300 dependents now stationed in Okinawa should stay there, and the $6.2 billion Marine facilities on Guam could be used by the Army. That’s the proposal put forward last ...