A power outage hit almost every area of Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture on April 25, affecting around 25,500 households, hospitals, schools and government services. Electricity was restored at ...

Leaning back on a resort poolside lounge chair, I heard the rustling sound of swaying sugarcane in the wind: “sasaq, sasaq.” The horizon beyond the ivory sandbar shimmered like glass. The silence was ...

MIYAKOJIMA, Okinawa Prefecture--A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that echoes today. Descendants of the two ethnic ...

Amid rising hopes for economic growth, Japan's tourism boom has exposed the need for regional authorities to develop infrastructure and help secure the manpower needed to deal with the influx of ...

virtual power plant '' in Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture. The company plans to deploy virtual power plants throughout Okinawa Prefecture in 2024. A virtual power plant (VPP) is a system that ...

The Rosewood Miyakojima will open on March 1 on Miyako Island, and the resort has begun taking reservations. It will be the Rosewood brand's first hotel in Japan. Nestled in sugarcane fields in the ...

Above: Typhoon Maria at 8:20 am EDT July 10, 2018 as it approached Taiwan. The eye had become elliptical and distorted, image credit: Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan. Figure 1. MODIS visible satellite ...