Outlying isles in southwestern Japan with extremely rare species ... and Iriomotejima island, to the list of natural World Heritage sites, the government said May 10. Their additions to the ...

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Iriomote Island looks nothing like the Japan you see in the movies ... Champagne and French wines are included with your ticket price, while a reserve list includes superstar Bordeaux First Growths at ...

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The story is that Godzilla (or Gojira, to use its more phonetically accurate Japanese name) is a Tyrannosaur-like dinosaur ... it comes to the land to prey on men," says a village elder on the island ...

Japan’s position on Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea that Japan claims as its own, is “inexcusably ...

Our nifty Japan tourist guide to public transportation in the country for beginners will break down how you can get around with ease.

In a country where people are notoriously media-shy, few were willing to give their names, but all were ... But despite ...

Arthur Polacheck was 17 years old and stationed in Okinawa, an island of Japan, as a radio operator for the United States.

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Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.