NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces began, the Japanese military built airbases throughout ...

Work has been paused on a new Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa for more than a month because of weather, but the construction schedule will not be affected, according to Japan’s Ministry of ...

A special version of a traditional stringed Japanese musical instrument has been created to support reconstruction efforts in ...

Answer: Eighty years ago, in 1945, ground battles between Japanese and American forces took place in Okinawa Prefecture, resulting in the deaths of about 200,000 people including residents. The ground ...

Col. Neil Owens, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Division, apologizes to Okinawa prefectural government after last month's ...

A 25-year-old airman is accused of punching his girlfriend while, separately, a 21-year-old marine allegedly put his hands ...

For years, both Japan and the United States have insisted that constructing a U.S. air station off Nago in Okinawa Prefecture is the “only solution” to a thorny military base issue.

The city plans to send the special zone status application jointly with the Okinawa Prefectural Government to the central ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The chief of staff of the US Marine Corps in Okinawa has apologized to Okinawa Prefecture for the recent conviction of a ...

Tamaki explained, “Even 50 years after Okinawa's return to Japan, the prefecture is still being forced to bear the excessive burdens of military bases, including accidents, ...

At least four people have been injured following an explosion near a U.S. military air base in Japan. Local and defense ministry officials said that four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (SFD) members ...