A fire broke out on a US military vessel off the US Navy's White Beach facility in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on Wednesday. According to local coast guards, the fire hit the 210-meter-long amphibious warship USS New Orleans.

Firefighting operations underway for the US Navy's San Antonio class amphibious warfare ship USS New Orleans, which suffered a fire while it was off White Beach in Uruma City on the Japanese island of Okinawa,

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

The U.S. military's Marine Air Defense Integrated System is expected to be deployed in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture.

Marines detained during joint patrol on island to prevent sexual harassment involving US soldiers - Anadolu Ajansı

Okinawa prefecture and two towns adjacent to Kadena Air Base have made formal protests to U.S. and Japanese authorities after an F-15E landed with a missing wheel.

NAHA -- "I had no choice but to stay silent." In Tomoko Oshiro's calm words, the deep loneliness of the past was unmistakable.Oshiro, 84, who survived･･･

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

At present, not many lawmakers are putting priority on Okinawa after measures taken by the government in the past for the development of the prefecture produced certain results.

Sayoko Yamamoto, an 81-year-old resident of Hyogo Prefecture, has never seen her father. He was drafted to war in December 1943, six months before she