June 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the return of the Ogasawara Islands to Japan, after some two decades of US military occupation following World War II.

Takashi Savory, a resident of far-flung Chichijima island in the Ogasawara island chain ... joined Pacific islanders to set up a colony of 20 or so immigrants on Chichijima, which was uninhabited ...

Four-hundred and forty-one native plant taxa have been documented on the islands whose waters support numerous species of fish, cetaceans and corals. Ogasawara Islands' ecosystems reflect a range of ...

Typhoon No. 11 is expected to approach close to the Ogasawara island chain, south of Tokyo, from the late afternoon of Aug. 29, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency is urging ...