Okinawa, known for the rich beauty of its diverse islands, offers visitors a tropical climate, broad beaches and coral reefs.

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s ...

He was 33 years old. Okinawa Prefecture was still under U.S. military occupation. Arakawa feels uncomfortable seeing U.S. military aircraft flying over the accident site where there is not even a ...

The site, previously called the Nishi-Futenma residential area, is being transformed into the main health and medical center of Okinawa Prefecture. The green 50.7-hectare used to be dotted with ...

Hydraulic oil spilled at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday from a drill on a vessel that was boring into the seabed in Oura Bay, according ...

Unless corrective measures are made, and quickly, the anti-U.S. military base sentiment and movement in Okinawa will grow, damaging Japan-U.S. cooperation at a crucial time. The Ministry of ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.