More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Department store in Okinawa hosted its first Hawaii Fair to celebrate Okinawan migration to the ...

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

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.

NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle ...

Japan's Defense Ministry said late Friday it had spotted two Russian Navy ships in the waters near Okinawa islands and Taiwan in the previous four days, following a similar announcement this week ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago.

The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture's Sakishima Islands to eight prefectures in the Kyushu-Yama ...

(Since the United States occupied Okinawa in 1945, driving on the right had been the norm, even after the prefecture’s return to Japan in 1972.) Regrettably, we did not get to explore much in ...

In short, Naha reiterates the truism that isolation breeds creativity. It’s also the launchpad for exploring the archipelago’s 160 islands, with domestic flights and ferries coming and going across ...

The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945 when the U.S. troops, in their push for mainland Japan, landed on the island. It lasted until late June, killing more than 200,000 people.