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 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 ...

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

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

The prefecture forms the southern-most islands of Japan which attract the world’s travel industry,” said Takeshi Onaga, the Okinawa Prefectural Government Governor.

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.

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

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