A 600-year-old Japanese castle has been gutted by a fire that tore through the World Heritage-protected site, reducing much of it to charred embers. The blaze erupted at the 14th-Century Shuri Castle, the seat of the ancient Ryukyu Kingdom, shortly after midnight local time (3pm GMT) and quickly spread through many of the wooden buildings on the site. BREAKING: Aerial footage shows devastation at the site of Shuri Castle in ...