The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing. Now, 80 years later, bones are still ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

But that’s Okinawa’s reality. In autumn 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl triggered ... “The girls who were killed by military bases in their hometowns are Takako, Yumiko ...

Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa – U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa kicked off its Army Emergency Relief campaign with a 5K Color Run on March 15, despite rainy conditions. Runners and walkers braved the ...

But the mood shifts once the lights come down and 73-year-old Eiichi Miyanaga ... After the war, the US occupied Okinawa, converting large swathes of land into military bases.

People in Okinawa ... US military personnel came to light. Prosecutors indicted a US Marine for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman and injuring her in May. 21-year-old Marine Lance ...

Local media said the 25-year-old man had been ... burden of hosting military bases is an everyday matter for us, and is intolerable.” Anti-base sentiment in Okinawa has been displayed in ...

Still, the 48-year-old from Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, said she felt scared by the government's hell-bent attitude toward filling in the sea for building a military base. “The government ...