You don’t have to go far to explore castle ruins on Okinawa. Chances are there’s one nearby. More than 300 castle ruins are located throughout the islands, harking back to the days when ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Work began this week to place tiles on the roof of the fire-ravaged main building of Okinawa landmark Shuri Castle. About 60,000 tiles made of mudstone and red clay are being placed on ...

Firefighters have been battling the blaze at the Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, since early Thursday, the BBC reported. In addition to ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

This aerial picture shows Shuri Castle after a fire ripped through the historic site in Naha, Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture, on October 31 Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images The Sho ...

A major fire devastated a historic Japanese castle on the southern island of Okinawa on Thursday morning, destroying large parts of the World Heritage site's complex, local authorities said. The Shuri ...