The natives of Okinawa are about as nonneurotic as any people in the world. So reported Navy Psychiatrist Lieut. Commander James Clark Moloney, who studied the mental states of Okinawans while the ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

A wide gap exists between Okinawa Prefecture and the rest of Japan on whether the southern island prefecture should continue to host the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan, surveys showed.

NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her protests the past four years, including a threat ...