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 ...

People in Okinawa are coming out in force to protest a series of cases of alleged sexual abuse involving US military personnel stationed in the southwestern Japanese prefecture. It came to light ...

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 ...

Tourism demand for Okinawa during 2010-2019 is examined in this paper with two different approaches. First, the number of visitors to Okinawa from 6 Asian regions (i.e., Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, ...

The same amount of money was demanded in a Tuesday bomb threat against 32 U.S. military installations on Okinawa, which was sent via emails to the Okinawa prefectural and Naha city websites ...

(Hiro Komae/AP) The U.S. Marine Corps scaled back its number of MV-22 Ospreys from 24 to 20 on Okinawa, Japan, in 2024 as part of an overhauling effort for the aircraft, according to a Marine ...