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 — An Okinawa woman faces up to a year in prison or fines after she allegedly hopped a fence over the weekend and was caught riding a bicycle around the Marine Corps base Camp ...

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 ...

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Sgt. John James, a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for saving Tokiko Ahuso, a local Kin Town resident ...

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 ...

A woman was found dead in a hotel room in Nago, Okinawa, on Saturday. An unconscious man was found on the floor in the same room and is suspected of killing the woman, police said Sunday. According to ...

TOKYO — The alleged rape of a Japanese woman in Okinawa--which police say may have been committed by a U.S. serviceman--could cast a shadow on today’s summit between President Bush and Prime Minister ...

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 ...