Miyagi and members of a citizens’ group in Naha are working on an update to the booklet, titled “Postwar U.S. Military Crimes Against Women in Okinawa.” It is a task they hope they do not ...

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

In a picture shot around 1944, the year before the island was devastated by the Battle of Okinawa, young women are shown glazing earthenware at a workshop in Naha’s Tsuboya district, home to ...

In fact, the key to this success is diet! The inhabitants of the Japanese island of Okinawa live on average 85 years (men) ...

The national flag of the United States of America (Mainichi) NAHA (Kyodo) -- A sexual assault case in November in Okinawa involving ... violence against women in the southern island prefecture ...

The serviceman, who is believed to be in his 30s, is suspected of allegedly raping a woman “older than 20” in an undisclosed building at Camp Foster in Ginowan City on Okinawa Island in ...