In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A new method has been ... approximately 200,000 tons of ammunition were used in what was known as the “typhoon of steel” of U.S. naval gunfire, leaving behind ...

Another Japanese expedition in 1616 was scattered by a typhoon and ended up raiding the Chinese coast ... including ships from Ryukyu (Okinawa) and Japan. The 1874 invasion of southern Taiwan by Japan ...

Ex-firefighter Benny Cheung Wai-leung never thought losing his left leg in a typhoon rescue mission 38 ... “I have tried many things – even diving in Okinawa. And I think we should all live ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who were killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa as “terrible” and ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — About 35 Okinawa civilian and U.S. military leaders met Friday in a promised forum at this Marine Corps base to discuss cooperative measures to stem criminal behavior by U ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of assault cases that have angered residents. The United States has ...

This story has been corrected. OKINAWA CITY, Okinawa — A rare joint patrol of the nightlife area outside Kadena Air Base by U.S. military and Okinawa authorities ended early Saturday with a ...

House of Councillors member Shoji Nishida of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party explains his own remarks over Himeyuri Cenotaph in Okinawa Prefecture, during a press conference in the Diet ...

Representatives of U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa authorities held their first meeting Friday under a new forum to discuss joint safety measures, following alleged sexual assault cases involving ...

OKINAWA - US soldiers joined Japanese officials and residents in Okinawa for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on April 18 following sexual assault cases involving American servicemen. The United ...