Japanese police on the island of Okinawa arrested four sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command over the weekend in Onna village. By Paul Szoldra Posted on Oct 29, 2019 11:56 PM EDT The ...

Two unexploded bombs apparently used in World War Two have been discovered near the airport on Miyakojima Island in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. Officials of Miyakojima City and ...

Four people from Okinawa Prefecture arrived at an airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1968, when Okinawa was still under U.S. rule. The U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR), which ...

Cats that went feral are posing an additional threat to the Okinawa spiny rat and other rare and endangered species in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, experts say. Researchers blamed ...

The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) said the Andaman Sea was being churned up by Tropical Storm Pulasan and another depression tropical depression. The weather systems spawned waves reaching ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

In the Sao Paulo neighbourhood of Liberdade, samba and Japanese tradition often mix Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan?

Streets and neighborhoods in Shanghai were again flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by Typhoon Pulasan, ...

People in raincoats ride electric bicycles in Shanghai on Friday. Battered by heavy rainfall due to the impact of Typhoon Pulasan, the 14th typhoon this year, Shanghai experienced continuous ...