Okinawa had been Japan’s only prefecture with natural population growth. The decline in the southernmost prefecture was attributed to increased fatalities from COVID-19 and more residents ...

long. The Ryukyus extend southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan's four main islands) to Taiwan. The Okinawa Prefecture encompasses the southern two thirds of that chain. Naha ...

KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

A large and very strong typhoon is engulfing Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. Officials are warning of very strong winds, storm surges and high waves. Japan's Meteorological Agency says ...

The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture's Sakishima Islands to eight prefectures in the Kyushu-Yamaguchi region in southwest Japan in the event of a ...