On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation ...

The bones were found on March 21 by a contractor conducting an environmental survey at a construction site on the Marine ...

A Japanese court punished a U.S. Navy contractor a six-month suspended sentence for having a small amount of marijuana.

With the launch of its new Blue Zone Retreat series to sake-infused cocktails at a sunset bar, the Halekulani Okinawa Hotel ...

NAHA—The opposition-controlled prefectural assembly is pressuring Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki over an outpost in the United ...

For a small but vocal group of mostly older activists, reclaiming Okinawa's history as the Ryukyu Kingdom and pushing for ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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 ...

In the Sao Paulo neighbourhood of Liberdade, samba and Japanese tradition often mix Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan?

A fire has destroyed all the main structures of Shuri Castle, a Unesco World Heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa. Firefighters battled the flames for more than 10 hours ...

NAHA, Japan -- Okinawa prefecture has stepped up efforts to promote bicycle tourism, aiming to attract cyclists to its subtropical climate with routes open year-round, and cash in on an estimated ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...