(Corrects paragraph 5 to say a group of Chinese naval vessels sailed through the Yokoate Waterway on Sunday, not the Yonaguni ...

NAHA--Typhoon No. 6 brought punishing winds to the southernmost Okinawa Prefecture from Aug. 1, causing power outages and ...

More than 30 military spouses on Okinawa have graduated from a leadership seminar designed to build professional skills and ...

BEIJING, April 22 (Reuters) - China said a group of its naval vessels, including a destroyer, passed through a waterway between two islands administered by the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa on ...

A housing area on this Marine Corps base may be returned to Okinawa by fall to help alleviate traffic congestion on a major ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa, Japan— Col. Erik Davis, U.S. Army Garrison Japan commander, visited USAG Okinawa on April 13, to see ...

NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki denounced the central government for starting land reclamation work for relocating a U.S.

Two vessels carrying students from Doshisha International Senior High School capsized while viewing land reclamation work for ...

TOKYO - Japan's weather agency on Wednesday downgraded a tsunami warning for islands of the southern Okinawa prefecture to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I grew up in Okinawa. Here's what I think the 'Blue Zones' trend has right and wrong about my home island. Yumi Matsumoto lived in ...

A quarter of Okinawan civilians died – many after being told to kill themselves, or from starvation. But the hunt for their remains is being complicated by some modern-day inhabitants: tens of ...