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

After drying off, head some 120 miles west into the mountains to hike the old Nakasendo ... Nishibama Beach make for a popular day trip from Okinawa, with the opportunity to swim alongside local ...

By Kathryn Romeyn In the East China Sea, in the south of Japan, the Okinawa prefecture encompasses ... in the breathtaking panoramic views of the mountains and gorgeous coastlines.” ...

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 ...

The Jungle Warfare Training Center — the only one of its kind in the Department of Defense — was established in 1958 across 17,000 acres of mountains and jungle in the north of Okinawa.

Iejima, an elongated, 14-square-mile island approximately three miles off Okinawa’s northwestern coast, is marked by a single mountain peak, 565-foot-high Mount Gusuku. Allied bombs started ...

Okinawa Prefecture, on June 18, 2023. The seeds and trunks contain deadly poison. (Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) However, the northern part of the island is covered with mountains and forests ...