Japan is quickly transforming its southernmost Ryukyu islands into a heavily fortified defense zone, sparking concern and ...
The Ryukyu Islands are divided into three major island groups: Okinawa Islands, the Miyako Islands, and the Yaeyama Islands. Photograph by Ippei Naoi, Getty Images As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu ...
The Japanese defense ministry claimed on Sunday that China's Liaoning aircraft carrier formation headed northeast after ...
Chinese academics are calling for new emphasis on Ryukyu, linking the ancient kingdom that is now Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa with China's national security. Observers say the push ...
Experts and scholars attend an academic roundtable discussing "Ryukyu and Okinawa in the Postwar 80 Years" held at the Department of History of Peking University on December 6, 2025. Photo: Xing ...
BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese scholar has called on the international community to reexamine the status of the Ryukyu Islands, warning against a revival of Japanese militarism.
A Japan-based society seeking independence for the Ryukyu Islands claimed recently that Japan regards Ryukyu as its own subject. Ryukyu independence movement [Photo / Global Times] The founder of the ...
Japan is racing to fortify some of its most vulnerable territory, but that is raising the stakes of the current spat between ...
As relations with China continue to deteriorate, Japan is embarking on its biggest military buildup in at least four decades.
NAGO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helios Distillery, which manufactures and sells Awamori, which is a distilled liquor of Okinawa in the southernmost of Japan, will hold a launch event for a new product ...
The top government spokesman said Monday he would not comment on a recent Chinese newspaper editorial that questioned Japan's sovereignty over the southern island prefecture of Okinawa, amid a ...
As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands were created by the goddess Amamikyo, who is believed to have descended from the heavens and into the sea, just off the southern coast of what is now known ...