Gen. Eric Smith said the planned transfer of Okinawa-based Marines to Guam in the coming years will distance the force from a critical theater that China seeks to further influence.

The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

Researchers have shed light on the dieting habits of 'Blue Zone' residents in a bid to help people live past 100 years old ...

A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S.

World War II brought even greater devastation to the island. The Battle of Okinawa in 1945, one of the war’s bloodiest, claimed the lives of nearly a third of the civilian population.

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture—With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of what is considered the world’s most ...

With the G7+1 summit taking place in Okinawa it’s time to check on the status of promises concerning the cancellation of Third World debt. More than a year ago, in June 1999 in Cologne, the Jubilee ...

Tomás Pinheiro describes the recent renovation of one of Okinawa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites after a devastating fire in ...

It marks the fourth sexual assault case against U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa within the past year ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be left over from World War II on a small island south of Okinawa’s capital city. The shell is one of ...

NAHA, Okinawa — The Japanese government will begin ... the southernmost of the country’s four main islands, after a World War II-era bomb exploded in October. A survey will begin Monday ...

U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa Fire and Emergency Services recently conducted their annual hazardous materials (hazmat) suit ...