Having been on a recent cruise that docked at Okinawa’s Naha Cruise Terminal 2, and later at Ishigaki, we can assure you that getting around on foot is absolutely doable – to some degree ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan plans to start operating its new Ground Self-Defense Force missile base on Ishigaki Island in March as part of a plan to bolster defenses in the Nansei Island chain ...

Up to 570 Ground Self-Defense Force members will be stationed at the newly established garrison on Ishigaki island in Okinawa prefecture, the country’s military said, confirming the troops moved ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The general in charge of the Marine Corps’ Indo-Pacific field command recently visited Ishigaki island for the first time, signaling U.S. resolve to defend Japan as it ...

Due to the moist air surrounding Typhoon Krathon, which is moving toward Taiwan, Ishigaki Island, located southwest of Okinawa Main Island, experienced severe weather with torrential rain and ...

Ishigaki, Japan — President Biden ... II, she lost her mother, brother, sister and grandfather. The U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945 began on the neighboring island of Okinawa.

TOKYO -- The Japanese government will set up the country's first long-stay evacuation shelters on an island near Taiwan by ...

Some 250 miles away from Ishigaki, wariness of both U.S. and Japanese militarization runs deep on the main island of Okinawa, which was devastated by the U.S. assault during World War II.

Japan has been ramping up the construction of military bases in Okinawa, the band of 150 islands that curves to the south of Japan’s main islands in the East China Sea.