Eruptions from an undersea volcano have apparently created an islet in the Ogasawara island chain more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, officials said. The Maritime Self ...

With no sightings in two years, the rare Ogasawara blue butterfly, named after its island chain natural habitat far south of Tokyo and designated a national natural treasure, is considered extinct ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has attended a joint Japan-US memorial ceremony on the Pacific island of Ioto, also ...

Four-hundred and forty-one native plant taxa have been documented on the islands whose waters support numerous species of fish, cetaceans and corals. Ogasawara Islands' ecosystems reflect a range of ...

The Ogasawara Islands are located in the North-Western Pacific Ocean roughly 1,000 km south of the main Japanese Archipelago. The serial property is comprised of five components within an extension of ...

Unseasonably hot weather has covered wide areas in Japan, with temperatures rising 30 degrees Celsius or higher in ...

The remote Tokyo island in the Ogasawara island chain in the western Pacific saw heavy fighting from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. The battle in the closing days of the war left some 21,900 Japanese ...

June 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the return of the Ogasawara Islands to Japan, after some two decades of US military occupation following World War II. In this series we look at how ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...