It’s easy to be swept up by the sublime beauty of an Ichiko Aoba song: Her crystalline voice and classical guitar are ...

Ichiko Aoba takes the “deep dive” literally. A few years ago, the Japanese singer-songwriter started traveling south to the ...

The amphibious Scolopendra alcyona Tsukamoto & Shimano inhabits streamside environments, deep in the forests of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Sado Island, Japan, is inhabited by seven species of snakes, the largest number in any isolated island in Japan, except for the subtropical Ryukyu Archipelago. Researchers conducted a 5-year field ...

japonica are divided into three major groups: northern Japan, southern Japan (including mainland China and Korea), and the Ryukyu-Taiwan ... to the Japanese archipelago, later evolved and ...

a science-fiction tale set on a far-future version of the Ryukyu archipelago, the chain of islands that stretch from Kyushu in the south-west of Japan towards Taiwan. Luminescent Creatures takes ...

Ichiko Aoba’s newest album, “Luminescent Creatures,” is a comforting and transcendent journey inspired by the deep sea.

Sado Island, Japan, is inhabited by seven species of snakes, the largest number in any isolated island in Japan, except for the subtropical Ryukyu Archipelago. Researchers from the University of ...