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

Okinawa Main Island lies 1500km southwest of Tokyo ... the key is to rent a car and head north. Northern Okinawa has two main areas, the Motobu Peninsula that juts out from the northwest coast ...

Okinawa was home to an ethnically diverse group of people. Many Okinawans had mixed blood, unlike their Japanese neighbors to the north. The island had come under Japanese control in 1875 ...

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki’s final legal challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps airfield in the island’s north. The Tokyo court on ...

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.

The risk of a magnitude 7 to 7.5 quake is estimated at around 60 percent for areas northwest of the Nansei Islands, which lie north of Okinawa’s main island. The probability of a magnitude 6.7 ...

Okinawa, known for the rich beauty of its diverse islands, offers visitors a tropical climate, broad beaches and coral reefs.

A Chinese woman who made headlines two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in Okinawa is planning to visit the island this summer, Chinese media have reported.

The subtropical island of Okinawa Prefecture has an environment, climate and culture very different to mainland Japan. An independent kingdom and trading hub until the 17th century, the influence ...

2 and 3, as it is moving north in the East China Sea. At Kumejima island, a maximum instantaneous wind velocity of 196.2 kph was registered at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1. Nago, on Okinawa's main island ...