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At least 30 endangered green sea turtles were found on Thursday with wounds around their neck, near the remote Japanese island of Kumejima in southern Okinawa prefecture. Police began ...
Back across the waterway, Iriomote is the second-largest island in Okinawa but remains remarkably ... we pass over a green turtle rocking gently in the current. The youngest on board squeal ...
A half-hour ferry ride west of Okinawa’s namesake main island ... Walk off Zamami Island’s white-sand beaches into turtle-filled waters, dive Aka’s reefs while spotting lionfish and ...
TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney toured the all-but-forgotten island, cabled: The rice and sweet potato fields of Okinawa creep over the slate volcanic soil, covering the shell holes and the ...