Both Okinawa and the Uezu family have a long history of suffering and despair, even after the end of World War II in 1945. Uezu’s own struggles against hardship have taken him around the globe ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...

Gen. Eric Smith said the planned transfer of Okinawa-based Marines to Guam in the coming years will distance the force from a ...

to books on the history of each municipality. Takazato and her colleagues believe many sexual assault cases in Okinawa Prefecture are a result of the prefecture being forced to shoulder a ...

Surprisingly, Japan’s worst traffic isn’t in the bustling cities of Tokyo or Osaka—it’s in Okinawa! With limited public ...

Seventy-five years on, a retired teacher from Tokyo is working to ensure the tragedy of Okinawa isn’t lost to history. His commitment to the cause is borne of a personal connection with the man ...

The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied the governor of Okinawa’s final challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps ...

It averages nine feet in length and weighs 550 to 1,000 pounds. The Okinawa dugong is slate gray to gray bronze in color and its tail is fluked, similar to those of whales or other cetaceans. As an ...