Japan’s Ishigaki island, a popular tourist destination and home to a Japanese army base, is battening down for Typhoon Bavi’s ...

Leaning her weight onto a walker, 90-year-old Toshiko Nakasoko moves in small, deliberate steps. With the help of a caregiver, she slowly lowers herself into a chair. It is a familiar morning scene at ...

On this day 81 years ago, American forces emerged victorious from the Battle of Okinawa, a grueling test of American might, will, and sacrifice that would echo through the ages. As Imperial Japan ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps commenced the Resolute Dragon field exercise for island defense skills Saturday that will continue through June ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps commenced the Resolute Dragon field exercise for island defense skills Saturday that will continue through June 30 across the Kyushu region ...

This photo taken on June 20, 2026, shows the opening ceremony of the Resolute Dragon field exercise for island defense skills at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto Prefecture. (Kyodo) KUMAMOTO (Kyodo) -- Japan's ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa, including scores of U.S. military bases, battened down Monday and braced for Jangmi, the first typhoon to hit the island in nearly three years. At 10:30 a.m., ...

Typhoon Jangmi brought heavy rain and damaging winds to Okinawa and Amami islands, southern Japan, as it approached Okinawa's main island on Monday, June 1. All flights to and from Naha Airport were ...

Hike to the top of Mount Omoto to summit the highest peak in Okinawa Prefecture. Enjoy all-inclusive pampering at Club Med Kabira Ishigaki, with its multiple sports clubs and private beach. Take a ...

BEIJING >> China said a group of its naval vessels, including a destroyer, passed through a waterway between two islands administered by the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday as it returned ...

The beaches aren’t for swimming and visitors rent EVs on this southern Japanese island, where tourism authorities are trying to redefine what it means to be green. The Hoshinoya Okinawa, as seen from ...