Australia this week announced a $6.5 billion deal to buy advanced warships from Japan, a move that can go a long way to ...

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

Japan may hold off on deploying such strike weapons to Miyako to avoid provoking China, only 600km away, but Gabe predicts the country will station aircraft and other missiles in Okinawa.

Japanese scientists using an improved method of analysis recently identified a third set of remains as likely those of an ...

When Japan took back control of Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu Islands, locals expected the government in Tokyo to help stimulate the economy and reduce the American footprint (see map).

If the sense of 'us and them' is strong, that can lead to conflicts like wars. People in the states or people in Okinawa, Japan — they’re all the same ...

Okinawa was sacrificed by Japan’s Imperial Army to defend the mainland, historians say. The island group remained under U.S. occupation until its reversion in 1972, two decades longer than most ...

Japan’s Emperor Hirohito ordered his country’s surrender in a radio broadcast on August 15 1945. After the deaths of some 70 ...

The Battle of Okinawa lasted nearly three months, killing some 200,000 people — about 12,000 Americans and more than 188,000 Japanese, half of them Okinawan civilians including students and ...

A Chinese marine survey ship was spotted dangling what appeared to be wire into waters off the island of Kumejima in ...

The US Air Force's 18th Wing stationed in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, says an F-15E fighter jet landed at Kadena Air Base on ...

OKINAWA, Japan, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Aiko Shimajiri fist-bumps supporters as she walks into a rally at a bullring in Okinawa's gritty Uruma city, the former minister in Japan's ruling party ...