IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit the Japanese island of Ioto for the first time on Monday to remember ...

In 2023, a mysterious island appeared on the surface of the Caspian Sea, only to disappear by the end of 2024, lasting less ...

The aquamarine waters of the Ogasawara island chain far south of Tokyo rank as one of the nation's stellar diving spots. They are also a graveyard of wartime wrecks. One site, about 30 meters ...

Typhoon No. 11 is expected to approach close to the Ogasawara island chain, south of Tokyo, from the late afternoon of Aug. 29, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency is urging ...

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

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived at Iwo Jima Monday as they begin a tour of memorial visits this month to ...

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 ...

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 ...