Okinawa

As tales of Atlantis have long captured imaginations, a sunken city discovered off the coast of Japan has blurred the boundaries between myth and reality—and has raised controversy in scientific ...

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The Chinese Navy's 12-day military exercise around the Japanese archipelago ahead of the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, likely ...

Commentary The U.S. Marines, particularly its presence on Okinawa, has often seemed the bellwether of the Japan-U.S. defense ...

Japan boasts the second-highest life expectancy in the world, according to World Health Organization statistics. The country has ...

Following the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s principle that “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency,” Japan will ...

Japan is planning to build additional evacuation shelters on the Okinawa islands to shield residents from missile threats ...

TOKYO—Okinawa’s incumbent governor who opposes an ongoing U.S. Marine base relocation forced by Japan's central government and calls ...

Voters in Japan's Okinawa re-elected Denny Tamaki as governor on Sunday, public broadcaster NHK and other media said, ...

The U.S. Army's Pacific commander, General Charles Flynn, said he is in no rush to withdraw rocket launchers ...

Commentary These days Okinawa isn’t in the news much—being overshadowed by the looming Chinese military threat, North Korean ...

The Chinese communist regime has recently intensified its provocations against Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines in disputed waters. ...

Our Diamond Princess cruise had been almost perfect. We had departed two weeks earlier from Yokohama, visited Kagoshima ...

The United States and Japan held negotiations on a new agreement by which Tokyo will take on its ...

TOKYO—The governor of Japan's Okinawa island demanded a top U.S. military commander take tougher prevention measures and more ...

TOKYO—A fire broke out on June 22 in a storage building for hazardous materials at a major U.S. ...

TOKYO—A fire has destroyed much of Shuri Castle, a World Heritage site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, ...

TOKYO—Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa protested Sunday against the presence of U.S. ...

ALBANY, N.Y.—Dorothy Hollingsworth was just 7 when her brother Tom left the family farm in Indiana to join ...

April 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Okinawa, a prolonged and bloody ...

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