The Latest Breaking News from Okinawa

Japan Airlines suspends flights to Okinawa and Kagoshima regions in response to tsunami warnings, ensuring passenger and crew safety.

More than 100 people still trapped around Hualien; fatalities include three hikers and a van driver

Japanese authorities have resumed landfill work at the planned new site of the U.S. military base on Okinawa despite protests by island residents that it tramples on their rights

A few days before Christmas, Hong Kong activist Tony Chung boarded a flight to Okinawa, Japan, carrying nothing but a backpack -- his casual appearance a ruse to hide plans to seek political asylum in the UK. Chung was among the youngest people in Hong Kong to be convicted under…

A Japanese court has ordered the governor of Okinawa to approve the central government’s modified plan for landfill work at the planned relocation site of a key U.S. military base on the southern island despite persistent local opposition

Air Force announces ‘ongoing combined effort to recover the remaining crew members from the wreckage’

Two new species of pygmy squid have been discovered off Okinawa and named after mythical creatures.

Longevity researchers have detected patterns across the regions with unusually high rates of centenarians

Dan Buettner has spent decades exploring the lifestyles and diets of people in remote places where living to 100 is more common. Here are life-enhancing habits from these "blue zones."