Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces bega･･･ ...

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

Days after two Marine colonels formally apologized to Okinawan officials for a lance corporal’s misconduct, two more U.S.

A 25-year-old airman is accused of punching his girlfriend while, separately, a 21-year-old marine allegedly put his hands ...

The number of SDF personnel stationed in Okinawa Prefecture exceeded 7,000 in 2016, when the first defense outpost in the Nansei Islands opened in Yonagunijima, Japan’s westernmost island just ...

Japan’s army has begun relocating its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft to a new base on the southern island of Kyushu, part of ...

Col. Neil Owens, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Division, apologizes to Okinawa prefectural government after last month's ...

The city plans to send the special zone status application jointly with the Okinawa Prefectural Government to the central ...

Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked and choked the woman from behind and tried to have sex with her, the Naha district ...

Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers.

People pray for victims inside a cave in Itoman, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Monday, June 23, 2025 as Japan marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.