Stationed in the Parliament, several women play the guitar and denounce the violations committed by American soldiers on the Japanese island, where 30,000 military personnel are still deployed. It's a ...

Ginowan city found levels of “forever chemicals” well below Japan’s legal limit in water sampled from a manhole oozing white ...

US Japan base negotiations ahead of the 2026 cost-sharing deadline will shape force posture, Okinawa realignment, and daily ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday ...

Home to frogs with Wolverine claws, primitive rabbits, and stunning beaches with crystalline waters, Japan's lesser-known ...

For centuries, Japan welcomed the new year according to the lunar calendar, but today the Lunar New Year survives only in pockets of the country following a political shift during Japan’s rapid ...

Every morning, Rikio Yokoda rises early to go to the fields. Although approaching 83, he has no plans to retire.

Analysts point to a shift in priorities among younger Okinawans as a possible factor in the alliance’s bruising defeat in the election.

For a quarter of a century, Okinawa has stood as a reminder of Japan’s defeat in World War II. Conquered by the U.S. in the last bloody battles of the war, it remained an American-occupied area even ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa’s rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it ...