Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

Believed to be over 10,000 years old, it challenges the timeline of human construction, suggesting that advanced societies may have existed long before previously thought.

A peculiar peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may not just be a geological oddity after all. The 1,310-foot-tall ...

However, there is an outside chance the dugongs are inhabitants of waters off northern Luzon Island in the Philippines that migrated to the Ryukyu Islands on the back of the Kuroshio current ...

s song from the Ryukyu Islands; a song of solitude from Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa; a children?s song of unknown origin; a tea picking song from South China; and two Korean folk songs: The Song ...

Sitting just 82 feet below sea level near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, a mysterious object called the Yonaguni monument continues to stump and astonish researchers since its discovery in 1986.

A 30-metre “pyramid” submerged just off the coast of Japan is turning heads — and could shake up everything we thought we knew about ancient civilisations.

The U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR), which aimed to develop human resources in Okinawa under national leader program, had sent them. The four were all dressed in suits and ...