It was a desperate plea from a boy that prevented a mass suicide on a remote island in Okinawa Prefecture when U.S. forces ...

Yasumoto suffered a severe abdominal injury when she was hit by a shell fragment while wandering in the mountains of northern Okinawa to flee the fighting. Her elder sister, who had enlisted as a ...

Hotel Management Japan Co., Lt. (CEO: Junichi Araki; Head Office: Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) operates 24 hotels (total rooms 7,671) in Japan. In Okinawa, one of Japan's most popular tourist ...

Japan Tourism Agency supports financially five projects in Kanazawa, Hakuba, Wakayama, Kotohira, Okinawa to attract ...

Just one week away from Memorial Day, families and friends took the opportunity to share the stories of veterans in their ...

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Police said both Marines were prepared for winter mountain hiking but encountered ... Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter ...

One such was the most famous piece by a columnist who soared from obscurity to a place in the nation’s consciousness ...

From Hawaii's Papakōlea Beach to Butiama Beach in Tanzania to Reynisfjara in Iceland, there are many incredible beaches all over the world. The new National Geographic book,100 B ...

Most journalism is, at most, the “first rough draft of history.” Occasionally, however, there is some journalism — even of the most perishable kind: a column — that attains an immortality because ...