An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

Women on the island have said ... occurred in other places where U.S. forces landed, including the main island of Okinawa and Iejima island. However, the entire picture of the suicides remains ...

On the offshore island of Ie Shima ... The girls from the Okinawa Shihan Women’s School and the Okinawa Daiichi Women’s High School helped nurse and attend to injured Japanese soldiers ...

It has been one year since the Ground Self-Defense Force opened a new outpost on the island in Okinawa Prefecture to fend off a possible military advance by China. Local opposition to the camp had ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women ... on Okinawa’s main island ...

What makes Okinawa so fascinating is that the secret to longevity is nothing mysterious. It is not a miracle cure or an exceptional gene, but an accessible and reproducible way of life.

Bone digger Takamatsu Gushiken, who spends his time in caves in Okinawa, explained to CNN that of the 1,400 sets of remains recovered on the ill-fated island, only six have been identified.

Late last year, when several thousand Okinawans protested the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by an American soldier stationed in their island prefecture ... opposed. Okinawa bears a ...