Two squadrons of F-22 Raptors recently arrived at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa for rotational duty with the 18th Wing, while a ...

Members of the U.S. Army community across Okinawa participated in the annual Naha Haarii, May 5, at Naha Port, Okinawa, Japan ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--Kiyoko Tokashiki recalls braving the pouring rain in a park in 1972 to protest the reversion of Okinawa to Japan while U.S. military bases remained concentrated in the ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture posted more deaths than births from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, its first annual natural population decline since such counts became available in 1975. A prefectural ...

As the invasion of Okinawa unfolded in April 1945, U.S. transports and escorts faced a level of massed suicide attack unlike ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...

The North Pacific High, which brings the East Asian monsoon, has expanded unusually rapidly this spring, leading to an early ...

Genta Koja, 42, a former deputy mayor of Naha, plans to run as a de facto candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

A quarter of Okinawan civilians died – many after being told to kill themselves, or from starvation. But the hunt for their remains is being complicated by some modern-day inhabitants: tens of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday ...

Onna, Okinawa Pref. – In Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, there’s a field — now largely overgrown but once home to numerous farms — boxed in by highways, a major U.S. military base and various residential ...