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 skeleton.

TOKYO (AP) — A fire broke out early this morning and spread quickly through historic Shuri Castle on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site ...

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Police say fire at Shuri Castle, a world heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, ... Police say fire at Shuri Castle, a world heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, nearly ...

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Shuri Castle has been destroyed by fire several times, most recently in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. After World War 2, it served as a university campus until the mid 1970s.

A fire tore through Japan's World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle on Thursday, reducing the main hall of the more than 500-year-old landmark to a skeleton. Mia Womersley reports ...