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Seven minutes away is Euglena Mall, a shopping arcade reminiscent of Kokusai-Dori in style and offerings, albeit smaller.
The UK Carrier Strike Group joined forces with U.S. and Japanese naval units off the coast of Okinawa for a joint maritime ...
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts just opened its first resort in Japan—on Okinawa's Miyako Island—and Travel + Leisure was the first in.
The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...
Two Air Force fighter squadrons arrived at Kadena Air Base last week as part of the service’s ongoing rotational deployments ...
Partly cloudy with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds N at 9 to 10 mph (14.5 to 16.1 kph). Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 56 °F (13.3 °C).
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.
Drop a pin on the map app on your phone at any of these places, make the drive to the Okinawa Prefectural Archives ... days in Japan’s second-largest city, he came across some schoolchildren ...
Cloudy with a high of 68 °F (20 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds from N to NNE at 15 to 19 mph (24.1 to 30.6 kph). Night - Scattered showers with a 61% chance of precipitation. Winds ...
Ships and planes would be able to transport around 110,000 residents and 10,000 visitors from the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, to eight south-western and western prefectures within six ...
Japan's government has compiled a plan to evacuate people from remote islands in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa in the event ... would be evacuated to Saga City or Tosu City.
Bereaved family members and those who lived through the war place their hands together in tribute in Zamami, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 26, 2025. (Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) NAHA -- An Okinawa ...