A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste has ...

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from WWII at a construction site in Naha, Okinawa.

The U.S. wants to plug a Japanese company into a TNT supply chain to deliver explosives to U.S. army-owned munitions plants that would pack them into 155-mm shell cases, the person added. Japan's ...

NAHA--Researchers in Okinawa Prefecture have confirmed the discovery of the oldest artificially colored ornament ever found in Japan ... 21 about a shell bead unearthed in a dig at the Sakitari ...

Japan is considering allocating 19.8 billion yen ($130 million) for the mass production of long-range missiles in the budget ...

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.