CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to Camp Schwab has been charged with raping a Japanese woman in an Okinawa hotel, a case that could enflame tensions on the tiny island prefecture, ...

The number of centenarians in Japan has hit a record high at nearly 100,000 people, the company’s health ministry said on ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in June revealed that 46 sets of remains the ministry recovered on Okinawa were scientifically identified as women, including one ...

Thursday marked exactly 30 years since three US service members stationed in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa sexually assaulted a minor.

A staffing shortage at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan, means pregnant women will have to either be flown off island at least six weeks before their due date, or try to get care in a Japanese ...

A court in Japan sentenced a Marine to seven years in prison on Tuesday after it found him guilty of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a Japanese woman in Okinawa last year, the latest ...

Long before U.S. military bases lined its shores, the islands known today as Okinawa were once the independent Ryukyu Kingdom ...

Japan has achieved a remarkable milestone with nearly 100,000 centenarians as of September 1, 2025, marking the 55th ...

The US Department of Defense is launching an evaluation of measures taken by US forces in Japan against violent crimes, as ...

A US Navy sailor and a Japanese woman were found dead -- both stabbed -- on Saturday in a bloody apartment bedroom on the Japanese island of Okinawa, police there said. A US Navy sailor and a Japanese ...

Defense Health Agency officials have reversed a decision at Kadena Air Base, Japan, that would have temporarily required women there to deliver their babies in Japanese hospitals or be flown to the ...