Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal over the last lawsuit on ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

KADENA TOWN, Okinawa — A U.S. service member was driving drunk Thursday when he crashed a vehicle that exploded on a highway just beyond Kadena Air Base’s fence, according to Japanese police.

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — A Kadena High School student died Monday in a vehicle accident that injured another student at the home of the 18th Wing. “Our heartfelt condolences go out to the ...