Okinawa prefectural police investigated four cases last year (one of the four was not prosecuted), the highest number in the past 10 years. Related News Okinawa women document U.S. military sex ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okinawa, Japan, one of the world’s rare Blue Zones where people live long lives, has introduced a new wellness tour focused ...

JAPANESE prosecutors on the island of Okinawa charged a former US marine yesterday with the rape and murder of a local woman. US military contractor and Okinawa resident Kenneth Shinzato will also ...

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 ...

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.