Four people from Okinawa Prefecture arrived at an airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1968, when Okinawa was still under U.S. rule. The U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR), which ...

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 ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

In the Sao Paulo neighbourhood of Liberdade, samba and Japanese tradition often mix Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan?

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — The Marines’ seaborne quick-reaction force on Okinawa now has a dedicated support group, the latest step toward transforming the service’s forces to counter China in ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marine Corps will soon deploy an unmanned, semisubmersible watercraft designed to move supplies and weapons across large ocean distances in waters surrounding Okinawa.

A fire has destroyed all the main structures of Shuri Castle, a Unesco World Heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa. Firefighters battled the flames for more than 10 hours ...

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On a lucky day, it's possible to catch the sun rising between the rocks and the subtle silhouette of Mount Fuji in the distance ... Far off the mainland, the island of Okinawa offers white-sand sand ...