China questions Japan rule over Okinawa
5 days ago
Li and Zhang wrote that Japan's annexation of the formerly independent kingdom of the Ryukyus, including Okinawa, in 1879 amounted to an invasion and the question of sovereignty remains open.
Okinawa marks anniversary of return to Japan
5 days ago
Protests were planned in Tokyo and there were no official ceremonies in Okinawa.
Military court sidesteps ruling on whether suicide is a crime
19 days ago
After Caldwell was told he was being sent to the brig over the alleged theft of a belt, he slit his wrists with a razor in the barracks at Camp Schwab, Okinawa.
2 US Navy sailors convicted in Okinawa rape
79 days ago
Two U.S. Navy sailors were convicted and sentenced to prison on Friday for raping and robbing a woman on Okinawa in a crime that outraged many on the southern Japanese island.
US Marine arrested on Okinawa in new alleged crime
143 days ago
Okinawa houses more than half the U.S. troops in Japan under a bilateral security alliance.
People flee Japan nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa
149 days ago
Other prefectures have offered similar aid, but Okinawa's help is relatively generous and is being extended an extra year to three years for anyone applying by the end of this year.