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The birthplace of karate also holds a deeply rooted connection to spirituality and nature. Here’s how to plan a visit to this ...
speaks at his home in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) A scroll of the Virgin Mary and Jesus once secretly worshipped hangs at a home in ...
He later visited another Japanese island, Ishigaki, home to Japan Coast Guard patrol boats defending the disputed East China Sea islands and Japanese fishermen from armed Chinese coast guard ships ...
Hokkaido’s wild interior is home to Japan’s largest national park ... A half-hour ferry ride west of Okinawa’s namesake main island, a smattering of smaller isles make up Kerama-shoto ...
Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands and is not even the size of New York city’s central park.