Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

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 throughout ...

A 25-year-old airman is accused of punching his girlfriend while, separately, a 21-year-old marine allegedly put his hands ...

People pray for victims inside a cave in Itoman, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Monday, June 23, 2025 as Japan marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "Okinawa Memorial Day," which falls on June 23.Question: June 23 is Okinawa ･･･ ...

Col. Neil Owens, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Division, apologizes to Okinawa prefectural government after last month's ...

OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture--One day in April, a fruit-and-vegetable man spoke to a shopper in broken English at a farmer’s market here because he assumed she was a foreigner.

The city plans to send the special zone status application jointly with the Okinawa Prefectural Government to the central ...

As governor of the Okinawa Prefecture, he oversees about 160 inhabited and uninhabited islands in southwest Japan. The U.S. military refers to it as the ...

Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers.

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.