This is the third installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures ahead of ... the Makiminato Service Area (Camp Kinser) in ...

adding the service's first U.S. anti-ship missile battery in Okinawa, Japan, under its newest littoral concept. The 12th Littoral Combat Team was established in a ceremony at Camp Hansen ...

Gushiken says the bones are silent witnesses to Okinawa's wartime tragedy, carrying a warning to the present generation as Japan ups its defense spending in the face of tensions with China over ...

while in a cave in Itoman on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Takamatsu Gushiken prays before the remains of those who died ...

MADISON, Wisc. — On Thursday, Brittany Kinser, candidate for Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has scrambled fighter jets twice this week upon detecting Chinese military aircraft and drones operating near Okinawa, according to official press releases ...

Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon.

The professional baseball SSG Landers will begin its second spring camp in Okinawa, Japan. SSG announced on the 22nd that it will depart on the 23rd and conduct the second spring camp in Okinawa ...

NAKIJIN, Okinawa Prefecture--Skeletal human remains bearing characteristics associated with medieval people in mainland Japan provide the strongest evidence yet of a migration to the nation’s ...

a group of uninhabited isles that are administered by Japan as part of Okinawa Prefecture but claimed by China. Toshihiko announced the city’s decision to approve the planned GSDF camp in 2016 ...