NAHA -- Two posthumous painted portraits of rulers of the Ryukyu Kingdom -- now Japan's Okinawa Prefecture -- have been returned after being discovered in the United States, the Okinawa ...

Through nuclear genome research, Chinese scientists have recently discovered that people from the Ryukyu Islands have ...

The last we heard from the Japanese singer and sometime video game composer Ichiko Aoba was on 2020’s album Windswept Adan, a science-fiction tale set on a far-future version of the Ryukyu archipelago ...

The Ryukyu Golden Kings and Alvark Tokyo advanced to the final of the Emperor's Cup men's basketball tournament by winning their respective semifinal games Wednesday. Ryukyu turned a 41-33 halftime ...

URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Vandals spray painted graffiti on a mausoleum for Ryukyu Kingdom royalty here, known as “Urasoe Yodore,” officials said. The mausoleum is located in the Urasoe ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

A Ryūkyū man dressed in a traditional bashōfu (芭蕉布 / banana plant cloth) kimono lies on the beach looking out to the sea. As he lies there, we witness the passage of time on the islands.

The populations of C. japonica are divided into three major groups: northern Japan, southern Japan (including mainland China and Korea), and the Ryukyu-Taiwan region. Among them, the northern ...