Perhaps influenced by a certain TV drama, I found myself interested in meeting doctors who work on their own on remote islands. Such doctors, who live and work surrounded by nature, may also feel the ...

I have seen the places where the Battle of Okinawa took place—the caves, the memorials, and the landscapes marked by battle ...

Excessive feeding of rabbits by tourists is causing disruption to the ecosystem of Okunoshima Island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. The island is also known as “Rabbit Island” because it is home ...

As tourism booms across Japan, United Airlines is continuing to expand its offerings to the country, with new routes planned ...

A powerful typhoon is heading west over the East China Sea after slamming Okinawa and other remote southwestern Japanese ...

Incumbent Governor Denny Tamaki is known for his staunch anti-U.S. base sentiment. His re-election bid will ripple through ...

Opportunities to directly observe how life colonizes newly formed land and how ecosystems subsequently develop are ...

For a long time, Okinawa has been considered a prefecture where the population increases. Even while many regions across the country entered a phase of population decline, Okinawa maintained a ...

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The combined population of Kyushu and Okinawa fell 0.62% year on year to 13.97 million as of January 1, 2026, according to a Basic Resident Register survey released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs ...

Okinawa was supposed to be the buffer: a young, high-fertility prefecture with the country’s most robust elder population. Instead its working-age men are dying earlier, its centenarian cohort is ...

The fishing port in the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, from where the two boats that capsized off the construction area of a new U.S. Marine air station departed, is pictured on April 15 ...