A Chinese marine survey ship was spotted dangling what appeared to be wire into waters off the island of Kumejima in ...

NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces began, the Japanese military built airbases ...

Okinawa prefecture has been sampling sites around U.S. bases twice a year since 2017, after high levels of PFOS were detected in 2016, the environmental division statement said.

Two Chinese coast guard ships entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, the ...

A jungle-themed amusement park designed to boost tourism in northern Okinawa opened recently near Yambaru National Park, a ...

The highly anticipated Junglia Okinawa theme park opened its doors on July 25, drawing early-morning crowds and boosting ...

Denny Tamaki is in charge of a chain of islands in what many people consider a dangerous neighborhood. As governor of the Okinawa Prefecture, he oversees about 160 inhabited and uninhabited ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, said Friday, March 15, 2024, that they have helped orchestrate the return of the artifacts to the government of Japan, Okinawa Prefecture.

NAHA—With a hefty price tag totaling 70 billion yen ($483 million), Junglia Okinawa's roller coaster-esque journey is barreling toward another summit as the theme park's much-anticipated July 25 ...

This August 2018 file aerial photo shows preliminary construction work off Henoko, in Nago city, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one ...

Denny Tamaki is in charge of a chain of islands in what many people consider a dangerous neighborhood. As governor of the Okinawa Prefecture, he oversees about 160 inhabited and uninhabited ...