Hashima Island is a chilling, deserted island just nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. The island has been abandoned for over half a century and is now entirely reclaimed by nature.

Beneath the coastal waters of the Japanese island of Yonaguni lies a series of mysterious rock formations. Since its discovery nearly 35 years ago, the strangely symmetrical shapes and structures ...

Yakushima is one of 6,000 islands that comprise Japan. The 195-square-mile fragment of land floating off the country’s southwestern tip has been part of Japan since at least the early 8 th ...

Thanks to digital mapping technology, Japanese geographers have identified more than 7,000 islands previously unrecognized in the country’s waters. The first such survey in 35 years revealed ...

The roar of the hovering Marine Corps aircraft drowns out the sound of waves breaking on the rocks around Yonaguni Island, among the most isolated locations in Japan, as the U.S. military conducts ...

When tourists flock to Japan, they often gravitate toward its central island, Honshu ... Call it Zen and the art of ramen. A similar style of regimented ramen eating goes down at the popular ...

Three people were killed and three others are missing in flooding in southwest Japan caused by the ... of rain were dumped on parts of Kyushu island. The national weather agency logged 402.5mm ...

A Chilean woman has faced criticism after posting a video on Instagram showing her hanging from a torii shrine gate and doing pullups in sync with music during a visit to Japan. The woman ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after an earthquake near its outlying islands. Officials say a potential tsunami could reach 1 meter in height. The advisory, which appears to be the lowest ...

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

The H3 No. 4 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island. Everything went as planned and the satellite was successfully put into a targeted orbit ...