The Latest Breaking News from Okinawa

The tranquil island is increasingly being taken over by military personnel

From Okinawa to Sarajevo to yes, Devon — by raft, camel or barefoot — here are this year’s hotspots

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop presence on the southern Japanese island

Japan's hybrid-helicopter military aircraft fleet resumes operations after a V-22 Osprey incident due to human error. Safety concerns raised in Okinawa.

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon.

Five regions of the planet were claimed to hold the key to living past 100. Research by Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing shows the truth isn’t that simple, writes Kevin E G Perry

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel expressed regret for the handling of two cases of sexual assaults allegedly committed by American military personnel on Okinawa, which have again stoked resentment of the heavy U.S. troop presence on the strategic island in Japan’s far south

Recent attacks occurred within months of each other, stoking local anger over the continued US military presence.

Japan’s government has protested to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa which have only recently been made public