Yumi Matsumoto lived in Okinawa for 30 years before moving to America last year. She said while Okinawans do emphasize health and community, things are changing with the younger generation. Matsumoto ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in June revealed that 46 sets of remains the ministry recovered on Okinawa were scientifically identified as women, including one ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...

A U.S. serviceman fatally stabbed a Japanese woman and then killed himself in Okinawa on Saturday, Japan's Foreign Ministry said, amid growing resentment about American troops in southwestern Japan. U ...

Bae Ponggi, a Korean woman who became a comfort woman for the former Japanese military in 1944, testifies for the first time in Okinawa in 1975, after Okinawa was returned to the mainland. In the "red ...

IT DOESN'T COME IN A SLEEK BOTTLE. It doesn’t involve kale in unspeakable forms. And it doesn’t promise six-pack abs by Thursday. But the Okinawa diet — an eating pattern inspired by the traditional ...