Polaris Holdings Co., Ltd (JP:3010) has released an update. Polaris Holdings Co., Ltd. is set to expand its hotel operations in Okinawa with a ...

Hal Silberman had his first conversation with God when he was in Okinawa. Silberman, then 19, served as a communications and decoding officer aboard the battleship USS Arkansas during World War II. “I ...

Marine Corps veteran James Despard was witnessed an atomic bomb at Operation Plumbbob in 1957. Read about his experience to ...

Bishop was killed in World War II in Okinawa. She was 3 1/2 years old. Her sisters, Ona and Billie, were 2 1/2 and 1 1/2. The sisters visit Bishop’s grave in Kossuth Cemetery and speak of him often.

Caitlyn Webber stands with packages containing donated books at her home on Okinawa, Nov. 6, 2024. Webber, a Marine Corps ...

Michael Kwiatkowski of Olean (left) is shown with Sgt. John H. Pope of Lynnbrook, Long Island, with a Japanese flag in the aftermath of fighting on Kakazu Ridge on the Island of Okinawa in April 1945.

Training in karate was not always easy for Nobuko Oshiro, who faced bullying and harsh treatment from her instructors as one ...

Japan has grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft again after an incident last Sunday where one of the hybrid ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Japanese court handed a suspended sentence to a U.S. Marine convicted of bringing a synthetic drug onto Okinawa through the mail. Lance Cpl. Gianmarco Benitez Perez ...

1893 Sep.15 The first newspaper in Okinawa, the Ryukyu Shimpo, is published for the first time, the president being Jun Sho, and Chofu Ota the editor-in-chief. The Paper had a four-page format, ...

TOKYO/NAHA — Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba’s long-standing call to revise the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement has been causing a stir in Okinawa Prefecture ...