Long before U.S. military bases lined its shores, the islands known today as Okinawa were once the independent Ryukyu Kingdom ...

During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, some 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and military personnel lost their ...

A fire has broken out on US naval ship New Orleans off Japan ’s Okinawa prefecture. Dramatic footage shared by the Japanese ...

A fire broke out on a US military vessel off the US Navy's White Beach facility in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, ...

A fire aboard a U.S. military vessel anchored near a naval facility in Okinawa burned for about 12 hours before being ...

A memorial ceremony was held Friday to remember the more than 1,400 victims, including many schoolchildren, of the sinking of ...

A fire that broke out on the U.S. naval ship New Orleans off southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture has been extinguished, the U.S. Navy said on Wednesday.

NAHA -- "I had no choice but to stay silent." In Tomoko Oshiro's calm words, the deep loneliness of the past was unmistakable ...

Okinawa prefecture and two towns adjacent to Kadena Air Base have made formal protests to U.S. and Japanese authorities after ...

At present, not many lawmakers are putting priority on Okinawa after measures taken by the government in the past for the ...

The art of bingata has been a quiet symbol of resilience on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Now, it's being revived by the ...

Okinawa prefecture has been sampling sites around U.S. bases twice a year since 2017, after high levels of PFOS were detected in 2016, the environmental division statement said.