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 ...

NAHA—In a case that drew outrage in Okinawa Prefecture, a U.S. airman was sentenced to five years in prison on Dec. 13 over the abduction and rape of a girl under 16. The Naha District Court ...

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A Chinese-led genetic study has offered a new piece to the ancestral puzzle of where modern East Asians came from, but it has also threatened to deepen political fault lines in Okinawa ...

URUMA CITY, Okinawa — Japanese troops exploded 461 U.S.-made shells off the coast on Thursday, the latest in a continuing stream of World War II leftovers that turn up on the former island ...

In the final scene, Daniel attempts to catch a fly with chopsticks like Mr. Miyagi challenged him to do in The Karate Kid.

He was honorably discharged a year after the war ended, then moved to Struthers in 1954. He has three children, six ...

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LESS THAN TWO months ago, the world’s oldest person (at the time) died. Tomiko Itooka made it to 116. She died Dec. 29 at a ...

He turned 19, digging a foxhole in the black sand. Many of his fellow Marines never lived to see their 19th or 20th birthdays ...

Cup-of-Coffee group at Denny’s in Rothschild celebrated and honored two of its WWII veterans 100th year birthdays on ...