Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks during an interview in Naha on Dec. 19, 2024. (Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture ...

(Mainichi/Nozomu Takeuchi) NAHA (Kyodo) -- U.S. forces and Japanese police held a joint patrol in Okinawa Prefecture for the first time since 1974 on Friday, after a number of sexual assault cases ...

U.S. soldiers joined Japanese officials and residents in Okinawa for a one-off joint nighttime patrol Friday following sexual assault cases involving American servicemen. The United States has ...

OKINAWA - US soldiers joined Japanese officials and residents in Okinawa for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on April 18 following sexual assault cases involving American servicemen. The United ...

NHK has learned that the remains of some 20 people believed to have died in World War Two have been found on Iejima Island in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. This is the first discovery of ...

The UK Carrier Strike Group joined forces with U.S. and Japanese naval units off the coast of Okinawa for a joint maritime exercise. This operation demonstrated advanced interoperability ...

AirAsia will provide better connectivity in Asia with the launch of a flight service that links Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) to Okinawa Naha Airport (OKA) via Hong Kong ...

It was also a crime to return drunk. U.S. forces and Japanese police will hold a joint patrol in Okinawa Prefecture this week after a number of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since. As a war orphan, he felt a deep sense of loneliness and inferiority.

NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of breaking into a retirement home and the other of ...

U.S. forces and Japanese police will hold a joint patrol in Okinawa Prefecture next week after a number of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel came to light last year, a Japanese ...

Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to ...