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NAHA, Okinawa — Japan’s defense minister, on his first visit to Okinawa in his new role, repeated a promise to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint there and expand joint exercises near Japan’s ...

Anti-U.S. base protesters sit outside the gate of Camp Schwab as a military vehicle passes by in Okinawa, Japan, Mar. 21, 2016. Credit: Depositphotos Subscribe for ads-free reading Okinawa, ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday it is ...

If you want to live healthily until 100 years old, look to Okinawa, Japan.” In 2004, the U.S. weekly news magazine *Time* ...

Travelers to Japan are looking beyond the usual hotspots like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, thus Okinawa is emerging as an option for visitors who enjoy a tropical climate and “Blue Zone” culinary culture.

Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance. On June 4, 2023, Xi Jinping visited a national archive in Beijing where he ...

The beaches aren’t for swimming and visitors rent EVs on this southern Japanese island, where tourism authorities are trying to redefine what it means to be green. The Hoshinoya Okinawa, as seen from ...