He set his US flag at the top of a coconut tree with a note stating that the land was now property of the United States. During this time the island had become part of the Ogasawara Islands Group and ...

“We want to leverage (the island) to attract businesses.” The Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, do not have naturally growing cedar or cypress trees. Yasuhiro ...

A recent study conducted by Japanese researchers has revealed a fascinating new theory about the Earth’s oceans billions of ...

On Saturday, Saturday meet Marianne Binetti at Huckleberry Gardens in Burienat 10 a.m. for a free presentation on “Four Seasons of Color”. Handouts and plant demos included. This is a new nursery with ...

Before 1810 and again in the 1870s, whalers released goats and pigs onto Great Island as a source of food for passing ships. This had a profound effect on Manawatawhi and its plant life, with some ...

here’s a reminder that rules are in place to restrict the movement of ʻōhiʻa plants from the Big Island. The quarantine rule has been in place since 2015 for ʻōhiʻa plants and plant parts ...

At 10:20 p.m., Kagoshima ordered 51 people from 33 households on Sakurajima island to evacuate after the JMA raised the alert level from 3, which restricts entry to the mountain area, to the ...

The massive property also has its own little dam and mini-hydro plant to help power everything. Aside from what's been built on the land, the site itself is beautiful, with forest, lake, and ocean all ...

Following a 23-year U.S. occupation, Iwo Jima was returned to Japan in 1968 as part of the Ogasawara island group, but is now home to only 380 service members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.