It was assimilated into Japan in 1879. After World War II ... sites called "sanctuaries", where the founding god of the Ryukyu islands is worshipped. The most eye-opening site is a triangular ...

The waters around Japan’s southwestern Nansei Islands ... northern Luzon Island in the Philippines that migrated to the Ryukyu Islands on the back of the Kuroshio current, the researchers ...

Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks, or deep within the region’s humid soil, researchers discovered seven new species with ...

Tsuchiya via Unsplash Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks ... in highly localized regions of the Ryukyu Archipelago, such as a limestone ...

The islands are the far southern end of Japan – once a separate kingdom, today a favourite travel destination offering unique ...

the largest number in any isolated island in Japan, except for the subtropical Ryukyu Archipelago. Researchers conducted a 5-year field study to investigate the ecology of each snake species.