It felt like a scene from Japanese folklore ... a 70km-long cycling route that links the main islands of Honshu and Shikoku, weaving through six smaller islands floating in the Seto Inland ...

This includes during the war, when Japan used Okinawa as a battlefield to stop the Americans from reaching its main islands. But the relationship has changed more recently, driven in part by the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. The remains of some 1,400 people found ...