Crystal blue seas, white sand beaches, colourful marine life and the Shuri Castle, home of the King of Ryukyu (a World Heritage Site) is what mainly comprises the Okinawa Prefecture. Okinawa consists ...

Itsumi Nakamoto, president of travel and hotel operator Endemic Garden H in the Yanbaru region of Okinawa's main island, senses a change in demand for tourism in the prefecture. “The question now is ...

OKINAWA — More than 100 million yen (S$1,245,800) has been raised to restore Japan’s Shuri Castle in Okinawa, where a catastrophic blaze on Thursday (Oct 31) caused extensive damage and left at least ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Okinawa prefecture is expecting tourists and businesses to cooperate with limits on visitation to one of Japan’s most popular destinations, the so-called “Galapagos of the East.

Okinawa and Hawaii tourism and cultural issues have a lot in common. Okinawa sits over 1500km from Tokyo, halfway between mainland Japan and China. Both islands are tropical, have a similar climate.

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Here is a place in Japan where business sentiment is higher than it was in the era of the bubble economy in the late 1980s — Okinawa, the string of islands known for crystal-clear waters and ...

MANILA, Philippines — I have always been fascinated by Japan. If I had a favorite place in Asia, hands-down it would be the land of ramen and tempura, anime, Uniqlo and Daiso, more heritage sites than ...

NAHA, Okinawa — There are war jitters here. Okinawa officials are afraid the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq is going to hurt its tourism industry. Just as Okinawa was climbing out of a tourist slump caused ...

NAHA -- The Oct. 31 predawn destruction by fire of Shuri Castle, a historical site that was once the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, has brought with it a pessimistic mood among some around the tourist ...

AT THIS time of year pack ice grinds the beaches of northern Japan, but in the Ryukyu Islands in the south farmers are cutting sugar cane. The Japanese archipelago spans an immense distance: from Cape ...