Long before U.S. military bases lined its shores, the islands known today as Okinawa were once the independent Ryukyu Kingdom ...

The cultural exchange, which devoted a week to Naha, Okinawa, was part of Gallatin’s sister school relationship with Naha Kokusai school on the small, southern island of Japan.

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Tomoko Oshiro offers flowers at the Cornerstone of Peace in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, where her father Chiyu Bise's name is engraved, on June 25, 2025. Her mother ...

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NAHA (Kyodo) -- A Chinese marine survey ship was spotted dangling what appeared to be wire into waters off the island of Kumejima in southwestern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday, the coast ...

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A US Marine has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after he was convicted of strangling and sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last May, a Japanese district court told CNN.

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s Navy SEALs.

TORII STATION, Okinawa, Japan – U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa held a Change of Command ceremony to bid farewell to Lt. Col. Rachel Bowers and welcome Lt. C ...

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 Islands: The largest island in the archipelago is Okinawa Island, also known as Okinawa Honto. The prefectural capital, Naha, is located on Okinawa’s main island.