A Marine on Okinawa received a Joint Service Achievement Medal for his role in recovering WWII remains on Guadalcanal.

An explosion injured four men at a Japanese facility for storing unexploded bombs at a US airbase in Okinawa on Monday, a fire official said, with their condition reportedly not critical.

Goshen native Derrick Foster, an NFL coach, is returning home this summer to host a free youth football camp in Goshen on July 12. Foster was a star running back at Goshen High School and went on to ...

Several Japanese Self-Defense Force members were injured on Monday in an explosion at an ammunition storage area inside the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, defence ...

Junglia Okinawa, a vast theme park scheduled to open July 25 in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa Prefecture, has been shown to the press. Covering about 60 hectares, the park sits ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid their respects to the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, accompanied by their daughter Princess ...

NAHA — The Emperor, the Empress and their daughter Princess Aiko began their visit to Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday to commemorate the war dead as this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress and their daughter have paid their respects to the victims of a ship that sank in a US attack while evacuating hundreds of children from Okinawa during World War Two.

They live at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Both dolphins arrived in Okinawa by helicopter from Kagoshima Prefecture in 1975. They've been under human care for 50 years. This marks a world record for this ...

June 4 (UPI) --Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 years ago, from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Emperor ...

The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945 when the U.S. troops, in their push for mainland Japan, landed on the island. It lasted until late June, killing more than 200,000 people.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II that was fought on the southern Japanese ...