Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko will visit the southernmost prefecture ... Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during ...

US has 54,000 military personnel in Japan and their behaviour has long ... first such joint event since 1973,” an official in Okinawa prefecture told AFP. Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki may ...

The war left countless orphans and single-parent families not only in Okinawa Prefecture, but across Japan. In mainland Japan, the Child Welfare Law was enacted in 1947 to help impoverished children.

Japanese police are investigating two Marines accused of sexual assault on Okinawa, Japan, according to several news reports and tacit confirmation from the service in which a spokesperson did not ...

Okinawa is the southernmost prefecture in Japan and is an island paradise rich in cultural heritage, nature and wildlife. The Okinawa Prefecture covers the Nansei Islands chain, an area of about ...

The United States has around 54,000 military personnel in Japan, mostly in Okinawa Prefecture, and their behavior has long angered locals. The one-off joint operation through busy areas until the ...

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 ...

And he felt some optimism because the reversion of Okinawa put the prefecture under Japan’s pacifist Constitution. Uezu worked hard to save money and returned to Okinawa in 1974, two years after ...

OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture—Okinawa prefectural police ... Wolford said that this patrol represents a joint effort between Japan and the United States to build local communities where residents ...

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NHK has learned that the remains of some 20 people believed to have died in World War Two have been found on Iejima Island in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. This is the first discovery of ...

US service members joined Japanese officials for a one-off joint nighttime patrol. Two US marines in Japan's Okinawa are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said on Thursday, the latest in a ...