an environmental engineer assigned to USAG Okinawa’s Directorate of Public Works. “They could easily come and go on roads and through utility pipes, so establishing a cooperative relationship ...

Police in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, have arrested an 81-year-old woman on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in death after her vehicle hit a signboard and then careened onto a sidewalk, and ...

The blast occurred while the soldiers, who specialise in handling explosives, were working at the storage facility for ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

As governor of the Okinawa Prefecture, he oversees about 160 inhabited and uninhabited islands in southwest Japan. The U.S. military refers to it as the “Keystone of the Pacific” due to its ...