Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

FOR years, Taichung City Government from Taiwan has actively promoted high-quality ponkan mandarin oranges to international markets. This year, Taiwan marked its first export of 15 tonnes of ...

TOKYO -- A jungle theme park will open in Okinawa in July, a grand bid to attract Asian visitors to Japan's southernmost prefecture amid a heated tourist boom. Junglia Okinawa opens July 25 ...

GINOWAN CITY, Okinawa — Teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a recent visit to a local elementary school.

NAHA--The cost for three areas of reclamation work to build a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture has soared by 60 percent to 41.6 billion yen ($383.7 million) in only two and a half years ...

The same amount of money was demanded in a Tuesday bomb threat against 32 U.S. military installations on Okinawa, which was sent via emails to the Okinawa prefectural and Naha city websites ...

NAHA--Shigeaki Kinjo, who survived a mass suicide during a fierce ground battle in Okinawa Prefecture during World War II, died here from acute heart failure on July 19. He was 93. Kinjo was a ...

Junglia Okinawa, a new theme park in northern Okinawa Prefecture, is set to open July 25, marketing company Katana and others said Tuesday. The roughly 60-hectare park, themed around nature and ...

My family moved from New Orleans to Okinawa. Public spaces in Japan are design with kids in mind, something I miss now that I ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

A staggering two in three in Australians will get skin cancer in their lifetime due to the harsh UVA levels in our country. These are the highest rates in the world. But while awareness about sun ...