Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

China is ramping up its military actions and raising tensions in the Nansei Islands. Japan is bolstering its presence in ...

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main ...

Japan Coast Guard (JCG) on Wednesday confirmed that a Chinese buoy that was installed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ ...

My family moved from New Orleans to Okinawa. Public spaces in Japan are design with kids in mind, something I miss now that I ...

On Tuesday, coast guard officials said the buoy was spotted in July of 2023 in the waters northwest of Okinawa Prefecture's Senkaku Islands, which are located in southern Japan. They said that ...

China said Tuesday it has moved a buoy it had installed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Tokyo-controlled, ...

Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Taiwan. Yonaguni is part of Okinawa Prefecture and the first ...

We lived in New Orleans, near family ... all the information I could about Okinawa, a Japanese island 400 miles south of the mainland. Moving to Japan was incredibly challenging.

Japan detonated 461 WWII-era US-made shells Thursday off the coast of Japan's southeastern island of Okinawa, the Stars and Stripes US military newspaper reported. The shells saw active combat in WWII ...