“Young people are no longer interested in becoming farmers or fishermen,” says Akihiro Takemura, a marine biologist at the University of the Ryukyus (UR), based in Okinawa, Japan. That comes ...

Normalization, which expresses the share of an institute’s output that appears in the selective Nature Index as a ... forward to its contribution to Okinawa, Japan and the world.

Japan has a population of 125 million in a country the size of California; Tokyo alone has about 37 million people. By ...

In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government, the local self-governing body under U.S. rule there, drafted a proposal concerning the handover of Okinawa to Japan.

Want to explore Japan anytime soon ... Besides its coastal landscapes, Okinawa is full of other beautiful, varied landscapes that will enchant nature lovers. The interior of the island is ...

Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.