In Japanese mythology, a gigantic catfish living underground causes earthquakes. The ruins of Shigetsu Castle’s stone walls lie further north of the location where the city’s cultural property ...

The excavation of ruins of the last castle built by the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is being hailed as the greatest discovery in Japan of this century. While there have been references in the ...

It was designated a Japanese national treasure in 1933 ... together with the ruins of other castles of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Many locals are asking the national and prefectural governments to ...

along with the ruins of other castles of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa. Okinawa's biggest industry is tourism, with people pouring in from Japan and overseas. Nearly 3 million people visited Shuri ...

A fire has destroyed all the main structures of Shuri Castle, a Unesco World Heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa. Firefighters battled the flames for more than 10 hours ...

Simon Kaner, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the University of East Anglia 'Reading Medieval Ruins invites us into the heart of a destroyed sixteenth-century city ...

It is one of the oldest castles in Japan that still has its original wooden ... and walking through its ruins feels like stepping back in time. Windsor Castle is one of the most famous castles ...