Kiyoko Tokashiki recalls braving the pouring rain in a park in 1972 to protest the reversion of Okinawa to Japan while U.S.

As part of the commemorations of 80 years since the end of World War Two, Okinawa Prefecture has created a series of video shorts, “Bases and Peace,” and published them on its special “Bases and Peace ...

No policy, no matter how salutary or noble, ever survives a bureaucracy intent on killing it. Last month’s Joint Statement of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee reiterated a decade-long ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Sunday urged Japan's central government to do more to reduce the U.S. military presence in the southern island group as it marked the 50th anniversary of its return to ...

Differences of opinions have widened between Okinawa Prefecture and Tokyo since Keizo Obuchi tried to bring issues facing the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 77th anniversary Thursday of the end of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, with the governor calling for a further reduction of the U.S. military presence ...

Mark “Smitty” Smith, center in black helmet, lowers two crewmen and a stretcher during a combat rescue mission in Afghanistan last year. Smith was killed in a training accident in Okinawa, Japan, last ...