Air Force weather preparedness training at the Inoda fishing port on Ishigaki Island drew complaints from Japanese ...

An analysis method has found that remains collected in Okinawa last year may be those of an American. The southern Japanese ...

The Okinawa diet is based on a traditional style of eating that people living in Japan’s Okinawa islands follow. This diet ...

Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital ...

But the Okinawa diet — an eating pattern inspired by the traditional food habits of the Okinawan people in southern Japan — ...

The study confirms that adopting a healthy lifestyle is important to achieve optimal health as well as managing the ...

At least four people have been injured following an explosion near a U.S. military air base in Japan. Local and defense ministry officials said that four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (SFD) members ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on March 1, 2019, after a vote on the relocation of a U.S. base on the island on Feb. 25.

Okinawa is geographically closer to China and the Philippines than it is to Japan's main islands. It was an independent kingdom until the Japanese Empire annexed it in 1879.

Okinawa, with a population of 1.5 million, hosts 70 percent of the American bases despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of Japan’s landmass. There are 80,000 Americans on the island, ...

Okinawa Today After the war, Americans occupied and administered Okinawa. In 1972, administration of the island reverted back to Japan, but American military bases remain to this day.