CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese authorities safely detonated 30 shells believed to be left over from World War II this week on Miyakojima, a popular tourist destination 170 miles southwest of ...

Akiko Urasaki knows what it's like to grow up with the specter of war. She's spent her life in the shadow of a vast complex of US military bases in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. She ...

If all the kids in Okinawa could do that, we wouldn’t be poor. If it were up to me, everyone on this island would be bilingual by now,” Urasaki says. “If it’s a political strategy for us to develop an ...