The court convicted 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton of "nonconsensual sexual intercourse causing injury," according to a ...

A Japanese court found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa in a case that has triggered anger and ...

Japan recently marked 80 years since the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the final and bloodiest ground battle of World War II ...

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The Okinawa diet is named after the traditional eating habits of the people on Japan's Okinawa island. The diet is typically ...

The unnamed teenager, of Okinawa city, was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing into the stairwell of the apartment building at 1:04 p.m. that day, a spokesman with Okinawa ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...

More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial ...

Eighty years after World War II, Okinawa and Taiwan remember the war in vastly different ways. Okinawa still bears deep ...

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