Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a ...

The Irei monument project is the first time a list accurately and comprehensively names the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned from 1942-1945.

What makes the Yonaguni Monument so fascinating isn’t just its massive size or sharp, staircase-like shapes– it’s the mystery it holds.

Criterion (iv): The Horyu-ji monuments represent the adaptation of Chinese Buddhist architecture and temple layout to Japanese culture and the subsequent development of a distinct indigenous style.

The 54-year-old musician lives in Tokyo and plans to erect a statue and install a symbolic fire at a monument in the Pearl ... 83 years since the Imperial Japanese forces launched a surprise ...