Japanese police on the island of Okinawa arrested four sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command over the weekend in Onna village. By Paul Szoldra Posted on Oct 30, 2019 The top officer in ...

the day after U.S. troops stormed ashore at the main island of Okinawa. It occurred at the bottom of a small valley not far from the coast, in the village of Yomitan. Of about 140 local residents ...

It began with the first, full-scale ground battle at Nakagusuku in central Okinawa. More than 5,500 people, about one-third of the village, eventually lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa.

The village is home to US military facilities. Visiting the Foreign Ministry's Okinawa office on Tuesday, Ishimine said local authorities were "kept in the dark for half a year about the December ...

U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa volunteers brought the holiday spirit to Yomitan Village, Okinawa, Japan, on Dec. 19, 2024, with a special visit to a local daycare center. The day’s festivities began ...

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences.

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

KITA-DAITO, Okinawa Prefecture--The village mayor of this remote island in southernmost Japan has agreed to allow the Air Self-Defense Force to deploy mobile warning and control radar to track ...

Photo credit: Okinawa Convention Visitors Bureau Descending from the castle and travelling further up the coast you reach the village of Ogimi. Beside the road is a stone monument with a ...

Halekulani Okinawa, the second hotel from the leading Hawaiian resort of the same name, is a Forbes ... [+] Travel Guide double Five-Star beach resort and spa located in Onna Village on the main ...