A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

Blue oceans, sunny skies, warm hospitality. Okinawa Japan is a subtropical paradise best explored on a luxury cruise around ...

With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of ...

Torrential rains are drenching Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. The public is being advised to be on high alert for ...

Caitlyn Webber stands with packages containing donated books at her home on Okinawa, Nov. 6, 2024. Webber, a Marine Corps ...

Heavy rain mainly hit the city of Nago and the villages of Kunigami, Higashi and Ogimi. In Higashi, 48-hour rainfall until 11 a.m. Sunday totaled 637.5 millimeters, a record high for the area.

Naha and Nago were home to Japan's biggest call center operations, receiving around 125,000 calls a day at their peak in 1999 ...

US president-elect Donald Trump pressured Japan to pay more for American troops stationed on its soil during his first term ...

Yonaha Momoko, a member of the student nurse corps who survived World War Two's Battle of Okinawa, has died at 96. She dedicated much of her life to traveling around Japan and passing on her wartime ...

Currently, there are 47 chaplains serving the 547,000 members of the Navy. As a child, Father David Hammond saw two options ...

After the war, Silberman resumed his studies and graduated from medical school at 26. Silberman was able to finish his ...