Long before U.S. military bases lined its shores, the islands known today as Okinawa were once the independent Ryukyu Kingdom ...

During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, some 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and military personnel lost their ...

A memorial ceremony was held Friday to remember the more than 1,400 victims, including many schoolchildren, of the sinking of ...

A fire has broken out on a US naval ship New Orleans off Japan ’s Okinawa prefecture. Footage shared by Japanese public ...

NAHA -- "I had no choice but to stay silent." In Tomoko Oshiro's calm words, the deep loneliness of the past was unmistakable ...

A fire broke out on a US military vessel off the US Navy's White Beach facility in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, ...

Okinawa prefecture and two towns adjacent to Kadena Air Base have made formal protests to U.S. and Japanese authorities after ...

A fire aboard a U.S. military vessel anchored near a naval facility in Okinawa burned for about 12 hours before being ...

A fire that broke out on the U.S. naval ship New Orleans off southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture has been extinguished, the U.S. Navy said on Wednesday.

The art of bingata has been a quiet symbol of resilience on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Now, it's being revived by the ...

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.

NAHA—The percentage of senior citizens in Okinawa Prefecture not receiving pensions is about double the national average, a result of the southernmost prefecture long falling under U.S. rule ...