The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

Eight Chinese naval vessels, including an aircraft carrier, passed between islands in Japan's southern Okinawa chain on Monday, Japan's Defense Ministry said in a news release. The ships ...

And that credible deterrent force has to be present to win, which -- to me -- means being [in] the first island chain." Roughly 19,000 Marines are stationed in Okinawa, the vast majority of whom ...

Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s beloved Blue Seal ice cream chain has opened outlets in the Kanto, Chubu and Kinki regions to recover revenue lost during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The longer-term ...

Yappari Steak is a steakhouse chain from Okinawa, Japan. According to the Yappari Group, it serves its signature thick-cut, rare beef slices on hot plates made from Mount Fuji lava. When ...

A new United States Marines unit trained to defend strategic island chains in the Pacific Ocean is going to be deployed to Okinawa. The move is part of an agreement between the US and Japan to ...