Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital ...

Two US servicemen have been arrested in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa over the weekend for allegedly assaulting Japanese nationals. The Okinawa prefectural police on Saturday arrested ...

More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

If any tsunami waves were generated, they would reach Japan’s Okinawa around 2.30pm Singapore time, earliest. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

U.S. troops landed on the main Okinawa island on April 1, 1945, beginning a battle in their push toward mainland Japan. The Battle of Okinawa lasted nearly three months, killing some 200,000 people — ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

Col. Neil Owens, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Division, apologizes to Okinawa prefectural government after last month's ...

A US Marine has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after he was convicted of strangling and sexually assaulting a woman ...

Tokyo — Japan's government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa that ...

Okinawa, with a population of 1.5 million, hosts 70 percent of the American bases despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of Japan’s landmass. There are 80,000 Americans on the island , of whom ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has started a weeklong visit to Mongolia that will honor Japanese World War II prisoners.

Two U.S. servicemen have been arrested in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa over the weekend for allegedly assaulting Japanese nationals, local media reported Monday.