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

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 broke out aboard a U.S. military vessel off the White Beach navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Wednesday afterno ...

The highly anticipated Junglia Okinawa theme park opened its doors on July 25, drawing early-morning crowds and boosting tourism in the region.

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 ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

The Okinawa Prefecture will continue to demand that the Japanese government reduces the excessive burden of US military bases and fundamentally revisit the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement.

Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late father ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture on Friday sued the Japanese government to again try to block further construction of a Marine Corps runway into Oura Bay at Henoko.