KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Japan Engineer District (USACE JED) is nearing completion on a modern headquarters building designed to significantly enhance ...

A Japanese high court has ruled in favor of the central government in a long-running dispute over a plan to relocate a US military base within Okinawa Prefecture. A high court on Wednesday ordered ...

The Army's was strategically important in providing combat credible land forces in the Pacific, as seen in battles on Guadalcanal, the Philippines, and Okinawa, and numerous other locations ...

Thai naval cadets are training with U.S. sailors and the United Nations Command-Rear this week during the Thai navy’s first ...

The United States needed a base to stage an invasion ... but most were still on Okinawa when the battle began on April 1, 1945. By mid-May, the Japanese 32nd Army was retreating south to its ...

NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her protests the past four years, including a threat ...

Okinawa accounts for just 0.6 per cent of Japan’s land mass but hosts about 70 per cent of all the US military bases and facilities in the country. Base-related woes have long grieved Okinawans ...