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 ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Roughly 45 students at Kubasaki High School staged a walkout Monday to protest a Pentagon policy ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

The 12th Marine Littoral Regiment welcomes its final element, the 12th Littoral Combat Team, during a March 3 ceremony on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. (Staff Sgt. JVonnta Taylor/Marine Corps ...

Okinawa prefectural police said earlier in the ... withheld the information because of diplomatic and political events, such as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s U.S. visit in April or the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki was scheduled to attend an Okinawa Kenjinkai gathering and other events in Los Angeles starting on Jan. 10, but he canceled the trip out of consideration for the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

Athletes at Department of Defense Education Activity schools in the Pacific resumed travel Thursday after a brief funding ...

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 ...

ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge.

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China. The American base on Okinawa has ...