This popular tourist destination here on a remote southern island is reeling under a surge of novel coronavirus infections, forcing local officials to declare their own state of emergency. Ishigaki ...

ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture—A U.S. Navy Aegis destroyer was met with a protest and port workers' strike after arriving here on March 11, the first time such a vessel has anchored at a commercial port ...

The East China Sea from Ishigaki island, where China and Japan jostle for control over Senkaku islands — China calls them Diaoyu islands. Tokyo, alarmed that the referendums might go in unexpected ...

Ishigaki is the most populated and most popular of Okinawa Prefecture’s Yaeyama Islands. Just a three-hour flight from Tokyo, Ishigaki serves as the region’s transportation hub with the New Ishigaki ...

Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, has over 100 islands, with some of the most remote in the beautiful Yaeyama archipelago. Popular tourist spot Ishigaki is located within the Yaeyama ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Japanese V-22 Osprey landed in Okinawa for the first time Thursday to train with the U.S. military, despite a request from the prefectural government to exclude the tiltrotor ...