Representatives of U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa authorities held their first meeting Friday under a new forum to discuss joint safety measures, following alleged sexual assault cases involving ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of assault cases that have angered residents. The United States has ...

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 ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--The island prefecture of Okinawa on May 15 marked the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan from U.S. rule, still chafing at the heavy concentration of U.S. military ...

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.

The Himeyuri (star lily) Student Corps, consisting of girls from two schools in Okinawa Prefecture ... prefectural headquarters of Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference). It was co-sponsored by the ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito ... them on her first trip to the prefecture, the Imperial Household Agency said Wednesday. After arriving in Okinawa from Tokyo's Haneda airport ...

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 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 ...

TOKYO: Two US marines in Japan's Okinawa are under investigation ... one-off joint nighttime patrol on the streets of Okinawa City, Okinawa prefecture late on Apr 18, 2025.

The last known discovery of human remains from the battle on Ie Shima came during Japan’s 2003 fiscal year, a spokesman from Okinawa Prefecture’s Social Welfare and War Victims Relief Division ...

The United States has around 54,000 military personnel stationed in Japan, mostly on the southern island of Okinawa, and their behaviour has long angered locals. A 21-year-old US Marine was ...