Japan pays the US $1.4 billion each year for the bases in Okinawa, which underpin their military alliance. Okinawa, Japan's ...

The arrival of the American military in Okinawa in the spring of 1945 marked the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles in ...

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Army Pfc. Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines rest behind a wall during a pause in fighting in the ...

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Okinawa's governor has shed light on his government's weeks-long silence after two US Marines were accused of sexual assault. Tamaki Denny says the women who claim to be victims did not want the ...

In the common areas, large-scale commissions such as a wooden wall sculpture ... of the lush landscape, still marked by signs of the 32 U.S. military facilities operating on Okinawa today.

I mean that literally: this remarkable all-villa resort, which occupies a previously undeveloped peninsula on the northwestern coast of Okinawa prefecture’s Miyako Island, is as much shaped by ...

Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to ...

Price: The Okinawa Lite is offered at a price of Rs 66,993 (ex-showroom, including FAME-2 subsidies) and comes in six colours. Design: Talking of design, The Okinawa Lite comes with colour-coded ...

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.’ ...

Okinawa bears a disproportionate burden for the alliance, with 70 percent of U.S. bases in Japan located on the islands. That makes the prefecture both strategically important and vulnerable.