An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers ...

Caroline Kennedy – renowned diplomat, author, and attorney – has rejoined the United States-Japan Foundation Board of ...

Days after two Marine colonels formally apologized to Okinawan officials for a lance corporal’s misconduct, two more U.S.

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

Col. Neil Owens, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Division, apologizes to Okinawa prefectural government after last month's ...

The Okinawa diet is based on a traditional style of eating that people living in Japan’s Okinawa islands follow. This diet ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The SDF began building camps soon after Okinawa reverted to Japanese sovereignty on May 15, 1972. SDF bases occupied about 783 hectares of land as of March 2022, representing a 4.7-fold increase ...

U.S. troops landed on the main Okinawa island on April 1, 1945, beginning a battle in their push toward mainland Japan. The Battle of Okinawa lasted nearly three months, killing some 200,000 ...

Okinawa was sacrificed by Japan's Imperial Army to defend the mainland, historians say. The island group remained under U.S. occupation until its reversion in 1972, two decades longer than most of ...

U.S. troops landed on the main Okinawa island on April 1, 1945, beginning a battle in their push toward mainland Japan. The Battle of Okinawa lasted nearly three months, killing some 200,000 ...