Every morning, Rikio Yokoda rises early to go to the fields. Although approaching 83, he has no plans to retire.

Japan has, for the first time, identified human remains from the Battle of Okinawa using only DNA testing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said in a recent announcement. DNA from the remains ...

June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle, while citizens reflected over long-lost loved ones and a promise by a ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture’s capital city will evacuate 1,400 people next month while Japanese troops disarm and remove a suspected U.S. bomb left over from World War II. Workers found ...

Today, Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of US military bases in the country, despite making up just 0.6 percent of Japan's land ...

Tokyo — Japan's government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa that were ...