Her island, she says, remains trapped under “an edifice of violence.” “Okinawa was sacrificed to defend Japan,” said Ms ... s mayor apologized for the city’s role in the persecution ...

I sincerely hope that Okinawa's wish for peace will spread' through the event, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki said in an opening ...

For 450 years, the little-known Ryukyu Kingdom thrived in what is now Japan. Now, after nearly vanishing, its unique fusion ...

U.S. service members and Japanese authorities are slated to conduct a second joint overnight patrol in the wake of a series ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s Naha and Ishigaki are among the top ports of call in Japan for international cruise ... Google Maps’ directions to reach the city’s edge. But it will be a relatively ...

The island of Iriomote is the largest in the Yaeyama archipelago, at the south-westernmost tip of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture ... Ishigaki City is small but has some excellent restaurants ...

Between May 1972, when the control of Okinawa returned to Japan, and 2019, there were 811 aircraft-related accidents on the island ... from the middle of a city to a more remote seaport area ...

is suspected of allegedly raping a woman “older than 20” in an undisclosed building at Camp Foster in Ginowan City on Okinawa Island in November, a police spokesperson told Stars and Stripes.

A Chinese woman who made headlines two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in Okinawa is planning ... uninhabited and close to the city of Qingdao in the Chinese ...