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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Having already claimed the spring invitational tournament on two occasions, the victory was the first summer championship for ...

Okinawa Shogaku clinched its maiden national high school baseball championship Saturday with a 3-1 victory over Tokyo's ...