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 ...

NAHA--An Okinawan women's group staged a large protest rally in front of the Okinawa prefectural government building here on Jan. 22 against a recent series of sex crimes committed by U.S ...

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 ...

"The crimes cause the people of Okinawa strong concerns but also ignore women's human rights and dignity, and are absolutely unacceptable," he told reporters. "It is more than regrettable that ...

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.

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 ...