The mass suicide occurred in April 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during the war.

The increasing military use of a civilian airport in southwest Japan, thought to be for contingency drills with China in mind ...

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Onna Village, Okinawa; President and CEO: Karin Markides; hereafter OIST) and ...

Despite decades of clearance efforts, roughly 1,900 metric tons of deadly remnants are estimated to remain buried beneath the ...

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The Defense Ministry detected 30 Chinese drones flying in airspace near the Nansei Islands in southwestern Japan in fiscal ...

Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan has a long history of emigration. Today, around 420,000 Okinawans and their descendants, are living around the world. This report highlights the journey of a third ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...

After both aircraft received onboard warning indicators on Tuesday, an MV-2B Osprey and an F-35B Lightning II separately ...

Last spring, the Japan National Tourism Organization reported back-to-back months with more than 3 million inbound visitors, ...

The Japanese government published Thursday an evacuation plan for the roughly 120,000 people on remote southwestern islands, ...