Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday began a trip to Malaysia and Indonesia as part of an effort to strengthen defense and economic ties with Southeast Asia as ...

The Blue Zones, first popularized by National Geographic reporter Dan Buettner over 20 years ago, include Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Loma Linda, California; Ikaria, Greece; and Okinawa, ...

Japan aims to bolster capabilities to defend and recapture remote islands, especially in its southwestern Nansei island chain ...

Storyline: Bracing rainy weather, dozens of Japanese protesters gathered in front of Japan's Ministry of Defense on Monday evening to rally against the planned relocation of a U.S. air base to Henoko ...

Recent movements by Chinese naval vessels have sparked fears in Japan of a potential naval blockade near Okinawa in the East ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF ... The new results framework aligns closely with the World Bank’s corporate scorecard to better map, track and compare results across global sectors and ...

The insect section is humongous. Mount Takao is home to thousands of insect species and is one of Japan’s three major insect ...

A United States missile-tracking aircraft was tracked flying above the waters between Japan and South Korea, two of Washington's security treaty allies in East Asia, for eight consecutive days as of ...

Asset manager is purchasing two hotels in $130 million deal Japanese hotels have attracted investors during tourism rush Blackstone Inc. has bought a Ritz-Carlton resort in Okinawa and is purchasing .

About 886,700 tourists visited Okinawa in the April to October period this year, a 12.5% increase from a year earlier, according to local government data. Japan saw ¥767 billion in hotel ...

At launch, the Apple Maps web beta included basic functionality like searching for points of interest, seeing ratings, browsing area Guides, and getting directions. With Look Around, the web ...