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 ...

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

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 ...