About 419 miles northeast of Aharen Beach (an overlooked Japanese gem rivaling the Maldives) lies a secluded island perfect ...

"Yayoi sugi is one of the most famous among the huge trees on this island," said a senior staff member of Yakushima island's Forestry Agency. The staff member works at the forest management ...

Does it really rain 366 days a year on Yakushima island, the place that inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film “Princess Mononoke”? Having visited the island several times, I was about ...

A US military aircraft with eight people aboard has crashed off Yakushima Island in south-western Japan. Japan's Coast Guard said one person had been found dead near the crash site. Japan's NHK ...

Yakushima, off Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, is a magical island of primeval forest, rare micro-climate and pristine nature. It is also the first place in Japan to be recognized as a UNESCO ...

malfunction that occurred in crash of an AFSOC CV-22B on Nov. 29 off Yakushima Island last year. The safety measures undertaken since March include preventive inspections of all aircraft prior to ...

Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the country was･･･ ...

It requested an emergency landing on Yakushima island before crashing offshore. Eyewitnesses later reported that the aircraft flipped over and was on fire before crashing. The cause of the ...

An earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitudes occurred near the southeastern coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu and tremors were ...

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