Located 800 miles southwest of Japan’s capital ... Tokunoshima lies between Okinawa to the south and Amami Ōshima to the north. The name, shortened to “Kodakara,” was coined in 2012, on the 50th ...

Who would have thought it? The UK – home of the deep-fried Mars bar, river sewage and Hull – has the worst life expectancy of ...

Comprising 160 pristine islands in the East China Sea between Taiwan and the Japanese mainland, Okinawa has produced the ...