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

Today, a majority of the 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan under a bilateral security pact and 70% of U.S. military facilities are still in Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land.

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

Okinawans have long known what the Japanese Government means when they repeat (over and over) that Okinawa is the only possible location for any new US bases in Japan: Mainland Japan wants no more ...

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Okinawa was the site of one of the bloodiest battlefields of World War II and was occupied by the U.S. before being returned to Japan in 1972.

Japan “sacrificed Okinawa to the U.S.” when Tokyo lost the war, he says, and since then nothing has substantially changed: Okinawa is still largely alone in bearing the burden of the U.S ...

Okinawa — The U.S. military in Japan reported three new infections on Friday, a low figure that suggested the coronavirus outbreak among U.S. military personnel in Okinawa was plateauing.

Okinawa, Japan, has an unusually high rate of people living past 100. One key to Okinawa's Blue Zone status is the region's traditional cuisine. Okinawans fill up on foods rich in antioxidants ...

The Japanese Ospreys will ferry simulated casualties from New Ishigaki Airport on Ishigaki, 160 miles east of Taiwan, to Amami Oshima, northeast of Okinawa, and then to Kyushu, the southernmost of ...

COVID-19 cases among U.S. military personnel on the Japanese island of Okinawa have caused tensions with local residents. A public outcry has caused the military to make some minor concessions.