The three-month carnage, often dubbed the "Typhoon of Steel", killed about 200,000 people, almost half of them local ...

Eighty years after World War II, Okinawa and Taiwan remember the war in vastly different ways. Okinawa still bears deep ...

St. Luke’s efforts have been recognized by the Lown Institute, being named one of the most socially responsible health ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered and, so far, the only area where it has been found. The Nansei Islands., also ...

Rhonda Dorothea Allen, 76, of Watervliet, MI, passed away peacefully at home on June 9, 2025, surrounded by loved ones.

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency ...

Lance Cpl. James Clayton, 22, was found guilty of grabbing the woman from behind, choking her and unbuttoning her pants in an ...

The court convicted 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton of "nonconsensual sexual intercourse causing injury," according to a ...

A U.S. Marine was sentenced in a Japanese court to seven years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year, the latest case to spark outrage among residents on ...