A fire engulfed Japan’s historic Shuri Castle early Thursday, reducing the UNESCO World Heritage site to smoldering ruins. Footage seen on public broadcaster NHK showed the bright orange blaze light ...

HONOLULU – Mayor Kirk Caldwell has requested Honolulu Hale to be illuminated in the traditional Okinawan color of purple this evening, Thursday, Oct. 31 to express solidarity with Honolulu’s sister ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A fire broke out early Thursday and spread quickly through historic Shuri Castle on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site. Firefighters ...

TOKYO >> A team consisting of about 20 experts from Japan and abroad has embarked on a project to create a 3D model of Shuri Castle, which was destroyed Oct. 31 in a fire in Naha, Okinawa. The group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators gather at the site of a fire on historic Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa, southern Japan Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Fire ...

NAHA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, is holding a new initiative called the “Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative in airports and other ...