Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...

Visiting Okinawa, I was struck by how much ... It Was Predicted 100 Years Ago. I visited the city that's been nicknamed the 'Paris of North America.' It really feels like a charming slice of ...

Okinawa, known for the rich beauty of its diverse islands, offers visitors a tropical climate, broad beaches and coral reefs.

In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government, the local self-governing body under U.S. rule there, drafted a proposal concerning the handover of Okinawa to Japan.

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military ... bombardment of more than 100,000 shells, the American military began landing on Okinawa at 8:30 am. It was the beginning of a merciless ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.

They show this by going through the city streets in mass festivities. This is one of the best events in the Naha I’ve attended while living in Okinawa in the American military. Aside from the ...

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