Luring visitors with golden beaches and picturesque palm trees, Okinawa is a wandering knight, never failing to surprise ...

Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 ...

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 Okinawa diet is based on a traditional style of eating that people living in Japan’s Okinawa islands follow. This diet generally includes foods that are low in calories, with a lot of ...

18 (Jiji Press)--A Chinese woman who came into the spotlight two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa plans to visit the ...

In Okinawa, more than 22,000 people were conscripted in this way. This amounted to about 20 percent of the fighting force deployed on the main island of Okinawa. The policy was also called ...

The 1.3 million or so residents of the main Okinawa island would be asked to remain ... Under such conditions, about 20,000 people, or double the usual number, could be transported each day ...

This popular tourist destination here on a remote southern island is reeling under a surge ... far higher than that of the entire Okinawa Prefecture, which was 127.43. The spike prompted city ...

People moving to higher ground in Ishigaki Island following the tsunami warning ... People on the rooftop of the evacuation building in Naha, Okinawa, on April 3. About 850 residents and tourists ...