Coins issued in ancient Rome have been excavated from the ruins of a castle in Okinawa Prefecture, the local board of education said, the first time such artifacts have been discovered in Japan. The board of education in the city of Uruma said the ...
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Saturday sought support from Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga over a plan to relocate a U.S. air base within the island prefecture, even as the dispute between Tokyo and Okinawa over the issue is set to be contested in the ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Government on Friday appealed a high court ruling that said its cancellation of landfill work for the central government’s effort to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is illegal. The ruling was the first of its kind in the intensifying ...
A U.S. Harrier jet went down in the ocean off Okinawa on Thursday afternoon. The pilot ejected and was recovered by a team dispatched from Kadena Air Base, the U.S. Marine Corps said. The U.S. Marines AV-8 Harrier jet crashed around 1:55 p.m. about ...
People near the site of helipads to be built for the U.S. military file suit against Tokyo, seeking to stop construction due to noise problems.
A U.S. Navy sailor arrested in Okinawa in June for drunken driving was found guilty on Tuesday but was spared prison time. The Naha District Court sentenced 21-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Aimee Mejia, stationed at Kadena Air Base, to three years in prison, ...
Fishhooks found on a southern Japanese island date back some 23,000 years, making them among the world’s oldest fishing implements, researchers said Monday. The hooks were discovered in Sakitari Cave on the southern end of Okinawa Island several years ago, said Masaki Fujita, chief ...
Precious little was written about Okinawa in English before World War II. Early accounts by ship captains and officers offer only passing impressions of the islands. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that more considered observations appeared. “There were no ...
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court finds Gov. Takeshi Onaga’s cancellation of a landfill work order contravened the law.
Opponents of planned U.S. helipads on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa have stepped up protests in Tokyo after the central government used military aircraft to transport equipment for the project. The U.S. Marine Corps helipads are to be used by MV-22 Osprey aircraft, which ...
The government on Thursday designated an evergreen forest region in the northern part of Okinawa Prefecture as its 33rd national park. Named Yanbaru National Park, it sits in the lushly forested Yanbaru region — one of the largest subtropical forests in the nation. The ...
At 87, Kiku Nakayama witnessed the misery of the Battle of Okinawa as a nurse caring for injured troops. ” ‘Stop!’ the soldier implored as his rotting limbs were cut off,” Nakayama recounted in front of a cave where she and others ran a ...
