Okinawa hosts 70 per cent of US bases despite accounting for only 0.6 per cent of Japan’s landmass. Read more at straitstimes ...

Miyagi and members of a citizens’ group in Naha are working on an update to the booklet, titled “Postwar U.S. Military Crimes Against Women in Okinawa.” It is a task they hope they do not ...

In a picture shot around 1944, the year before the island was devastated by the Battle of Okinawa, young women are shown glazing earthenware at a workshop in Naha’s Tsuboya district, home to ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...

woman, and children lost their lives during the nearly three months of fighting. Just 350 miles from Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, Okinawa was home to an ethnically diverse group of ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...

Japanese prosecutors on Okinawa will not pursue charges against a U.S. Marine accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in November, a spokesman said Friday. The Naha Public Prosecutors ...

Bae Ponggi, a Korean woman who became a comfort woman for the former Japanese military in 1944, testifies for the first time in Okinawa in 1975, after Okinawa was returned to the mainland.