Okinawa on Friday marked 72 years since the end of a fierce World War II ground battle that killed a quarter of its civilian population, as resentment continues to run deep over the heavy concentration of U.S. military bases there. Touching on a U.S. ...
A series of incidents over the past few years have raised concerns the U.S. military on Okinawa is failing to securely manage its weapons in the prefecture.
Lt. Col. Kris E. Roberts, who found dozens of barrels of hazardous waste buried at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 1981, reflects on the consequences of that discovery.
A prominent Okinawan activist told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday that the Japanese government has committed “clear human rights violations” against those opposed to the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Base Futenma. “Civilians are protesting the militarization every day. The ...
A Japanese artist has attained his goal of painting murals in 10 countries to spread a message of peace, completing the last one on his home soil to complete the three-year quest. Shinichiro Higashi finished a painting of a pigeon holding a white daisy ...
Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota, a noted historian and survivor of the Battle of Okinawa, succumbs to pneumonia.
Hiroji Yamashiro recounts six harsh months of POW-like detention he survived after being singled out for simple acts of civil disobedience recently in Okinawa.
Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the nation’s largest convenience store operator, will start opening outlets in Okinawa around fiscal 2019, extending its presence to the only area in Japan without Seven-Eleven stores, the president of the chain said Friday. President Kazuki Furuya told Okinawa Gov. Takeshi ...
An Okinawa resident, originally from the U.S., is calling for donations to publish a manga book and an animated film through crowdfunding to promote the unique history and culture in the prefecture, which historically had been the independent Ryukyu Kingdom until the late 1800s. ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Government will file a fresh lawsuit against the central government next month to demand that work on the replacement for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma be halted, the governor said. The move will reignite the legal tussle between the prefecture ...
Two emergency landings, one involving a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey and the other a fighter jet, took place Tuesday on an island in Okinawa and in northeast Japan, the Defense Ministry’s regional bureaus said Wednesday, but no injuries were reported. According to the Okinawa ...
With respect to democracy, rule of law and human rights, Japan is moving backward under the Abe administration.
