In October, a devastating fire at Unesco World Heritage Site Shuri Castle left the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa shaken. The aftershocks of this destruction affected everyone from ...

HONOLULU – Mayor Kirk Caldwell has requested Honolulu Hale to be illuminated in the traditional Okinawan color of purple this evening, Thursday, Oct. 31 to express solidarity with Honolulu’s sister ...

Shuri Castle, often described as “Uchinanchu,” or Okinawa’s heart and soul, was ablaze on Oct. 31 and burned for more than 11 hours. More than 170 firefighters responded, but the fire consumed several ...

TOKYO >> A team consisting of about 20 experts from Japan and abroad has embarked on a project to create a 3D model of Shuri Castle, which was destroyed Oct. 31 in a fire in Naha, Okinawa. The group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators gather at the site of a fire on historic Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa, southern Japan Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Fire ...

NAHA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, is holding a new initiative called the “Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative in airports and other ...

TOKYO (AFP) - A major fire ripped through a historic Japanese castle on the southern island of Okinawa early on Thursday morning (Oct 31), spreading throughout the World Heritage site's complex, local ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Fire and police investigators inspected the burned-out ruins of Shuri Castle on Okinawa on Friday to determine the cause of the fire that nearly destroyed the symbol of the Japanese ...