The Battle of Okinawa killed a quarter of the island's population, leading to a 27-year U.S. occupation and a heavy American ...

The court convicted 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton of "nonconsensual sexual intercourse causing injury," according to a ...

A Japanese court found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa in a case that has triggered anger and ...

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The unnamed teenager, of Okinawa city, was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing into the stairwell of the apartment building at 1:04 p.m. that day, a spokesman with Okinawa ...

The Okinawa diet is named after the traditional eating habits of the people on Japan's Okinawa island. The diet is typically ...

Eighty years after World War II, Okinawa and Taiwan remember the war in vastly different ways. Okinawa still bears deep ...

More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s ...

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...