Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

U.S. begins relocating Marines from Okinawa to Guam, marking start of long-planned shift amid regional security issues and ...

But there's a place in Japan, named Okinawa, which is renowned as one of the world's "Blue Zones"-- a term used for regions where people often live longer and healthier than the global average.

URUMA CITY, Okinawa — Japanese troops exploded 461 U.S.-made shells off the coast on Thursday, the latest in a continuing stream of World War II leftovers that turn up on the former island ...

Chinese officials have allegedly approached ethnic Chinese living in Okinawa to help set up an “underground police station,” similar to those in other countries around the world, but those efforts ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend, the second such incident in 10 days. The spill occurred just more than a mile ...

Junglia Okinawa, a new theme park in northern Okinawa Prefecture, is set to open July 25, marketing company Katana and others said Tuesday. The roughly 60-hectare park, themed around nature and ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

President Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections” after the Ukrainian president said Mr. Trump was in a “web of disinformation.” By Andrew E. KramerConstant ...

An alarming video from Gaza shows young children handling oversized rifles in the absence of Hamas police. Despite Hamas's efforts to maintain order, children handling weapons instead of toys has ...