GINOWAN CITY, Okinawa — Teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a recent visit to a local elementary school.

TOKYO -- A jungle theme park will open in Okinawa in July, a grand bid to attract Asian visitors to Japan's southernmost prefecture amid a heated tourist boom. Junglia Okinawa opens July 25 ...

Junglia Okinawa, a new theme park in northern Okinawa Prefecture, is set to open July 25, marketing company Katana and others said Tuesday. The roughly 60-hectare park, themed around nature and ...

A major exhibition featuring over 130 works by ten important Brazilian artists from the twentieth century, capturing the diversity of Brazilian art at the time. In the early 20th century a new modern ...

Beijing is believed to be sowing divisions in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture to better facilitate an invasion of Taiwan, British newspaper the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Less than 750km from Taiwan, ...

China is secretly trying to gain control in Japan, specifically in Okinawa, which is just 750 kilometres from Taiwan and hosts a significant US military presence of nearly 30,000 troops. Now, with ...

Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio space in Tokyo.Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times Supported by By Zachary Small ...

Japanese prosecutors on Okinawa will not pursue charges against a U.S. Marine accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in November, a spokesman said Friday. The Naha Public Prosecutors ...

Cargo weighing 400 to 450 kilograms dropped from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft was blown off course and ended up in waters near a small island in Okinawa in southern Japan, a prefectural government ...

Given this unique setting, the design choice steered away from an “Okinawa-like” building style with large openings, which would have seemed out of place. Instead, the vision was to create a ...

Is the world of opera becoming more inclusive? A new documentary, featuring conductor Antonio Pappano, explores the mission to open up the art form to everyone. Opera star Bryn Terfel emerged from ...

Artworks that remained in Okinawa and escaped the disaster were ... including culture, arts and social trends and developments. Written by veteran Asahi Shimbun writers, the column provides ...