U.S. forces and Japanese police will hold a joint patrol in Okinawa Prefecture this week after a number of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel came to light last year, a Japanese ...

Typhoon No. 10 is expected to batter western Japan from Sept. 6 to 7 with force predicted to shatter all records, the Japan Meteorological Agency warned on Sept. 2. If the typhoon maintains its ...

Following recent sexual assault cases involving US military personnel, Japanese and US officials will conduct a rare joint patrol in Okinawa on April 18. This initiative, the first since the 1970s ...

NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of breaking into a retirement home and the other of ...

The United States will deploy an undisclosed number of Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Tritons at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan's ...

Japanese troops recently removed and neutralized three World War II-era U.S. artillery shells uncovered at construction sites across southern Okinawa and detonated another offshore, according to ...

Onaga served as secretary-general of the Okinawa prefectural chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party and had sometimes opposed Ota. However, after the Democratic Party of Japan came to power ...

NAHA--A joint patrol involving Okinawa prefectural police and the ... cautious about staging patrols due to concerns about the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement, which states that if ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since. As a war orphan, he felt a deep sense of loneliness and inferiority.

Japanese and U.S. officials said Friday they will jointly conduct a patrol in Okinawa Prefecture following sexual assault cases involving U.S. servicemen. The United States has around 54,000 ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa ... tea farming town that today is part of Minamikyushu ...

Japan's largest yakuza organized crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP on Thursday. The Yamaguchi-gumi has fought bloody wars with ...