The vivid vermilion wooden palace, long regarded as a symbol of the island, is finally visible again as crews move on to ...

NAHA—The vivid red of Shuri-jo Castle's main hall here gleams under the sun once more, nearly free of the temporary roof that ...

Six years after a fire, restoration work was nearly completed in July on the vivid red exterior of the "Seiden" main hall of Shuri Castle in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan ...

is a Ryūkyūan castle (or gusuku) in Shuri, Okinawa. It was the palace of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. In 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, it was almost completely destroyed. Beginning in 1992, it was ...

Tomás Pinheiro describes the recent renovation of one of Okinawa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites after a devastating fire in 2019, as well as the history of reconstructions that this castle has ...

One of Japan's World Heritage sites has been destroyed by fire. Flames tore through Shuri Castle on Thursday (October 31), reducing the main hall of the over 500-year-old reconstructed landmark to a ...

Origins -- Golden age of the Ryukyu Kingdom -- Bankoku shinryo no kane (The Bell of Shuri Castle) -- Shureimon gate -- Satsuma Dominion and the Decline of Shuri Castle -- Commodore Perry's visit to ...

The concrete road west of Shuri castle had been smashed by shelling; eleven days of rain had turned Okinawa’s red clay into hip-deep sludge. Confidently the Japanese commander moved his troops over to ...

Shuri Castle, listed as a World Heritage site, goes up in flames, in Naha on the southern island of Okinawa, Japan. A fire tore through Japan’s World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle on Thursday, reducing ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A fire tore through World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle in Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Thursday, reducing the main hall of the more than 500-year-old landmark to a charred ...