Located 25 meters underwater near Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, a mysterious structure known as the Yonaguni Monument continues to fascinate researchers, even decades after its discovery in 1986.

A sunken ‘pyramid’ located near Taiwan has researchers rethinking everything they know about ancient civilizations. Discovered near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in 1986, the Yonaguni monument is a ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

s song from the Ryukyu Islands; a song of solitude from Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa; a children?s song of unknown origin; a tea picking song from South China; and two Korean folk songs: The Song ...

However, there is an outside chance the dugongs are inhabitants of waters off northern Luzon Island in the Philippines that migrated to the Ryukyu Islands on the back of the Kuroshio current ...