Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a yet ...

Okinawa is Japan's southernmost island and is home to 32 U.S. military facilities. Recent and past incidents of sexual assaults committed by U.S. service members in Okinawa has the Okinawa ...

Part of that plan includes booting roughly 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa, an island that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's total land mass, but houses 70% of all U.S. military facilities in the ...

Today, with more than 35 inhabited islands, Okinawa features a unique culture alongside wild nature. Its numerous beaches, which have the longest open season in Japan of roughly seven months ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

On this week’s episode, the YouTube star announced that he would be giving away a $1.8 million island—and that’s in addition to the show’s $5 million grand prize. The tropical paradise is ...

Naito admits the idea is a bit like an Ikea show room. As the Mingei movement ... and Hokkaido and Okinawa, which it annexed. NAITO: (Through interpreter) One aspect of it was that people from ...

Open-world adventure game Hello Kitty Island Adventure will launch for Switch and PC via Steam on January 30, developer Sunblink announced. As previously announced, the PlayStation 5 and ...