I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of ...

Maybe because it was a Sunday when we docked in Okinawa or perhaps that’s just how laidback the island is, but you won’t ...

Okinawa hosts the majority of the approximately 54,000 US troops stationed in Japan. While the military presence has long been a point of tension for residents, recent high-profile assaults have ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japanese and US officials said Friday they will jointly conduct a patrol in Okinawa following sexual assault cases involving US servicemen. The United States has around 54,000 military ...

Two shells were unearthed in Okinawa’s capital, Naha, city officials said. The first was discovered March 3 in the Shuri district and removed without evacuations March 18 by the Japan Ground ...

Night - Clear with a 33% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C). Winds ...

The prefecture hosts the bulk of U.S. military installations in Japan. "We strongly demand that the deployment plan be reconsidered and that our burden be reduced in a visible manner," Okinawa Gov.

But the journey was not without its setbacks. With no map, they mistook Miyazaki in southeastern Kyushu for Shikoku, Japan’s fourth-biggest island, which is linked by bridges to the country’s ...

This image shows the website dubbed the "sex crime map," which is now unavailable. TOKYO -- Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission has given administrative guidance to the operator of ...

Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II, the threat of unexploded ordnance still looms over the prefecture. Despite decades ...