In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government, the local self-governing body under U.S. rule there, drafted a proposal concerning the handover of Okinawa to Japan.

Japan considers the redeployment of US Marines from Okinawa to Guam to be important work, Japanese Defence Ministry Gen ...

A road map drawn up in 2006 on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan calls for relocating some 9,000 of about 19,000 U.S. Marines in Okinawa to areas outside Japan, including Guam. In a time of ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

More than 200 impressive red columns at a public hall here have been letting the soothing ocean breezes blow through for almost ha･･･ ...

Yoshinaga took the stage for the concert's second half. Though she has performed around the country with Sakamoto, Yoshinaga told the crowd that finally getting to play in Okinawa was particularly ...

(Japanese original by Shinnosuke Kyan, Kyushu Photo and Video Department) A stage-like platform is seen at one corner of the Nakijinson Central Public Hall in Nakijin, Okinawa Prefecture ...

Japan says the US has apologised for a series of recent accidents on its territory involving American military equipment. The incidents on the southern island of Okinawa included the emergency ...

The Marines and Japan Self Defense Forces will conduct joint training in Guam, the statement said. Okinawa, which was under U.S. postwar occupation until 1972, is still home to a majority of the ...