From snorkelling off Taketomi to hiking on Yakushima, visiting’s volcanic Aogashima or lounging beachside on Ishigaki – aka ‘Japan’s Maldives’ Japan is a land that boasts 6,852 islands ...

IT’S the most isolated inhabited island of Japan. This active volcano is home to just 200 people in one of the most remote places on Earth. Aogashima sits 358km south of Tokyo in the Philippine ...