The U.S. military hasn’t told the Okinawa Defense Bureau which bases these aircraft belong to, citing security reasons. According to the town of Kadena's records, the last time the number of U.S ...

KIN, Okinawa Prefecture--A suspected carcinogen and other substances exceeding government-set levels were detected in tap water in this town that co-hosts the U.S. Marine Corps Camp Hansen ...

The number of people with dementia who go missing while venturing out alone is increasing. In Okinawa Prefecture, 118 such cases were reported to the prefectural police last year, the highest ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Japanese motorcyclist was killed early New Year’s Day in a two-vehicle collision involving a U.S. Marine, according to Japanese police. The 22-year-old Marine from ...

Ms Shimabukuro says she came for personal reasons: "I was born and raised in Kin, a small town in Okinawa. I want to try and see things from a distance to try and find my own identity.

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 ...

NAHA, Okinawa — The Japanese government will begin magnetic surveys for unexploded ordnance at Okinawa’s main commercial airport next week. The government began the surveys at Miyazaki Airport ...

FILE - A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena Town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.

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.

In Chatan Town, traffic came to a standstill ... People on the rooftop of the evacuation building in Naha, Okinawa, on April 3. About 850 residents and tourists evacuated to the building to ...

The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop ...