Work has yet to begin at about 30 per cent of priority heritage sites nearly 7 years after the blaze that destroyed Okinawa’s Shuri Castle.

Okinawa Island, also known as Okinawa Main Island, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. It is the smallest and least populated of the five main ...

Okinawa's historic Shuri Castle once stood at the heart of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Now, seven years after a devastating fire, reconstruction work is entering the final stages, including some intriguing ...

Among the historical sites in Okinawa, Japan, Shuri Castle (首里城) stands out as a representative relic. Before 1879, when ...

A recent Pentagon statement that it will not return Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Japan until it provides an alternate runway of similar length is not a change from the original agreement, ...

Tadaaki Miyagi runs Burikina, an organic coffee farm in Nago, a city on the Motobu Peninsula that juts out from the northwest corner of Okinawa Prefecture’s main island. After he registered his lot ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan’s army will not fly its V-22 Ospreys to Okinawa during the ongoing Iron Fist exercise with the U.S. Marine Corps, according to the Japan Ground Staff. The Japan Ground ...

It has been learned that the US Department of Defense has told a congressional audit body that Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in southern Japan will not be returned to Japanese authorities unless ...