The island of Iriomote is the largest in the Yaeyama archipelago, at the south-westernmost tip of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture. It is nearly 2,000km from the bustle and neon of Tokyo, but further ...

A road trip around Okinawa reveals why locals consider themselves apart from the rest of Japan, with its history and cuisine moulded by a rich Ryukyu past and South Pacific sensitivities.

(Since the United States occupied Okinawa in 1945, driving on the right had been the norm, even after the prefecture’s return to Japan in 1972.) Regrettably, we did not get to explore much in ...

Okinawa, with a population of 1.5 million, hosts 70 percent of the American bases despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of Japan’s landmass. There are 80,000 Americans on the island , of whom ...

Kitadaito, Okinawa Pref. – The village of Kitadaito, Okinawa Prefecture, will accept the planned deployment of an Air Self-Defense Force mobile radar, Mayor Mitsunori Onizuka said Monday.

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.