The Ryukyu Golden Kings turned up the intensity down the stretch on Sunday to defeat Utsunomiya Brex 87-75 and square the best-of-three B-League basketball finals at one game apiece. Playing in its ...

Guard D.J. Newbill scored 25 points and had six assists to lead Utsunomiya Brex to an 81-68 win over the Ryukyu Golden Kings ...

Makoto Hiejima poured in 14 fourth-quarter points to lead Utsunomiya Brex to a championship-clinching 73-71 victory over the Ryukyu Golden Kings in Game 3 of the B-League basketball finals on Tuesday.

The wide- ranging economic and cultural contacts of the Ryukyu Islands over that period gave rise to a unique culture. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Ce groupe de sites et de ...

The perception stems from an express reference made by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan’s southernmost islands, known as the Ryukyu, in early June during a visit to the China National ...

Chinese academics are calling for new emphasis on Ryukyu, linking the ancient kingdom that is now Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa with China’s national security. Observers say the ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...