It’s Okinawa Prefecture's gubernatorial election ... That included the relocation of the Futenma Air Base in Ginowan City. Some say Futenma is the world's most dangerous base as it is situated ...

China has made extensive use of malinformation. Its story about the Okinawa protests – headlined “Okinawan People Demand ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi met with Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki here on March 16 to address the growing ...

NAGO, Okinawa Prefecture--City officials here say no official minutes exist of crucial meetings with the central government over the relocation of a U.S. base in the prefecture, a lapse that may ...

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Ryukyus and its affiliated hospital have moved to the new medical center.

Japan's COVID-19 cases are rising again, especially in the southern prefecture of Okinawa ... at Yuuai Medical Center in Tomigusuku City, Okinawa, says another coronavirus wave could be looming ...

Misako Yoshimura, an 81-year-old resident of the town of Yonabaru, Okinawa Prefecture ... which forms part of the present-day city of Nanjo, drinking sake every night while gazing out to sea.

The Japanese government, which is rushing to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko area of the city of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, has forcibly gone ahead with land ...

The majority of the gift comes directly from residents who donated at various city halls throughout the prefecture, as well as from businesses, and elected leaders in Okinawa. The effort was ...

Ginowan, Okinawa Pref., March 17 (Jiji Press)--A new medical center equipped with advanced instruments has opened at the site ...

Ginowan, Okinawa Pref ... Hayashi said at the opening ceremony for the facility in the city of Ginowan in the southernmost Japan prefecture on Sunday. "The government will make best efforts ...