On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

Japanese and US officials said Friday they will jointly conduct a patrol in Okinawa following sexual assault cases involving ...

Following recent sexual assault cases involving US military personnel, Japanese and US officials will conduct a rare joint ...

A new documentary film that depicts the long campaigns waged by two Okinawa governors against the concentration of U.S.

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing. Now, 80 years later, bones are still ...

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

The United States will deploy an undisclosed number of Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Tritons at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan's ...

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said that the drones will be sent to the U.S. air base in Kadena, on Okinawa Prefecture’s main ...

Two Air Force fighter squadrons arrived at Kadena Air Base last week as part of the service’s ongoing rotational deployments ...

He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, trying to bring closure to one of the most fierce and deadly battles of the Pacific war.

The mass suicide occurred in April 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during the war.

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.