Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are still being ...

Rosewood Miyakojima sits on an untouched peninsula on a tropical island located off the south coast of mainland Japan.

Nine students and a teacher from Okinawa’s Itoman High School visited Washington state on January 22-28. Their itinerary included experiencing American school life and culture through classroom visits ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

KADENA TOWN, Okinawa — A U.S. service member was driving drunk Thursday when he crashed a vehicle that exploded on a highway just beyond Kadena Air Base’s fence, according to Japanese police.

The Marine Corps may finish runway repair work in the fall at an offshore airfield at the center of a dispute with Okinawa prefecture over parachute training at Kadena Air Base. The prefecture had ...

NAHA, Japan (AP) — Spring training for Japanese baseball looks familiar; hitters in the batting cage, infielders taking ...

Tattoos are no longer taboo. One in every three Americans now has at least one tattoo. As getting inked becomes more common, potential risks and side effects are being more intensely scrutinized.

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China. The American base on Okinawa has ...

It is unclear, however, whether and to what extent tattoo ink may trigger chronic inflammation in the lymph nodes, home to germ-fighting cells. It is also unclear if the accumulated ink can cause ...