The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

The prefectural police also arrested Gabriel Monize, a 21-year-old private 1st class who belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Hansen in Okinawa, on Sunday on suspicion of slightly injuring an ...

Japanese soldiers defused a U.S.-made bomb believed to be a World War II leftover at a historic villa in Okinawa’s capital ...

HANOI -- Eight people, including six adults and two children, were killed in a fire late Sunday night at a residential complex in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News Agency reported. The ...

Q: When was June 23 established as Okinawa Memorial Day?

The Japanese Self-Defense Force on Wednesday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys at a newly opened permanent base in ...

Japan's weather agency said Monday it is assessing the possibility of tsunami reaching the country after a large volcanic ...

If you want to find the deep south of Japan, go to Okinawa, an island home to a U.S. air base that sits closer to Taiwan than ...

Japan plans to build an underground bomb shelter on its westernmost island that’s capable of housing up to 200 people.

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...