Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal over the last lawsuit on ...

In the Battle of Okinawa, residents and Japanese soldiers used them as their refuges and field hospitals. Various tragedies took place there. Some of the caverns will be shown in images of ...

Okinawa is known as a blue zone region—a place where people are known to live longer, healthier lives compared to the rest of the world. More women aged 99 and older live in Okinawa than ...

Okinawa, known for the rich beauty of its diverse islands, offers visitors a tropical climate, broad beaches and coral reefs. Home to World War II sites and a distinct “Blue Zone” culinary ...

Every year on June 23, the people of Okinawa remember the lives lost in the fierce fighting that took place here in the closing stages of World War Two. The Battle of Okinawa claimed more than ...

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 ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki missed a government-set Oct. 4 deadline for a decision on accepting a design change application submitted by the Defense Ministry for the land reclamation work off ...

Okinawa Adventures has launched a wellness tour in its namesake prefecture, one of only five 'Blue Zones' where people live ...

Given this unique setting, the design choice steered away from an “Okinawa-like” building style with large openings, which would have seemed out of place. Instead, the vision was to create a ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise by Marines, sailors and Japanese troops next month, according to Japan’s ...