Here's why this city in Japan is quickly becoming one of the world's top tourist destinations and why you will want to add it ...

In October, a devastating fire at Unesco World Heritage Site Shuri Castle left the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa shaken. The aftershocks of this destruction affected everyone from ...

The main hall of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, which was destroyed in a fire in October 2019, has largely regained its iconic appearance after exterior reconstruction work came close to ...

One of Japan's World Heritage sites has been destroyed by fire. Flames tore through Shuri Castle on Thursday (October 31), reducing the main hall of the over 500-year-old reconstructed landmark to a ...

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 31 (Jiji Press)--Six years after a fire, restoration work was nearly completed in July on the vivid red exterior of the "Seiden" main hall of Shuri Castle in Naha, the ...

People visit the Shuri Castle of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, on Nov. 12, 2013. The Ryukyu Kingdom was united in Okinawa in the early 15th century and Shuri was its capital. In ...

The concrete road west of Shuri castle had been smashed by shelling; eleven days of rain had turned Okinawa’s red clay into hip-deep sludge. Confidently the Japanese commander moved his troops over to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A fire tore through World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle in Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Thursday, reducing the main hall of the more than 500-year-old landmark to a charred ...