NAHA, Okinawa — Work began this week to place tiles on the roof of the fire-ravaged main building of Okinawa landmark Shuri Castle. About 60,000 tiles made of mudstone and red clay are being placed on ...

This aerial picture shows Shuri Castle after a fire ripped through the historic site in Naha, Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture, on October 31 Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images The Sho ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators gather at the site of a fire on historic Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa, southern Japan Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Fire ...

NAHA--Five years ago, historic Shuri-jo Castle here was reduced to a smoldering ruin after a catastrophic fire left people wondering how long it would take to bring back this symbol of Okinawan ...

Shuri Castle in Okinawa, the former seat of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, has undergone repeated conflagrations and reconstructions over the centuries. A look at the history leading up to its latest destruction ...

A RAGING inferno has gutted Japan’s 500-year-old Shuri Castle – a World Heritage site that’s revered “like a god”. The blaze ripped through the 14th century building in Okinawa, burning the landmark ...

TOKYO, Oct 31 (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 ...