Okinawa

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. About 100 people from Japan and South Korea attended the unveiling Sunday of a cenotaph commemorating wartime sex slaves mainly from the Korean Peninsula forced to serve Japanese soldiers on ...  

How does a Monster Hunter-themed vacation on Japan's tropical Okinawa islands sound? If you've got $1500 to burn, you can take a vacation with the creators of the popular PSP game. Imagine going on hikes, BBQs, and playing Monster Hunter right alongside Capcom staff members! The trip begins...  

OKINAWA, Japan (September 5, 2008) -- The price for mid-grade unleaded gas in Japan and on Okinawa is likely to stay at $4.06 per gallon through the ...  

An amicable relationship with Okinawa Prefecture's top leaders has been established by Japan's new Defense Minister, who has visited the country's southernmost prefecture only three weeks into his term.  

Original Okinawa handicrafts are in vogue, leading artisans to turn that interest into both a cultural and financial bonanza.  

The government has been consistently lying to the people. Even after undeniable evidence and reliable testimony emerged to contradict its claim, the government has refused to admit its deception, which has been ...  

Okinawa's sixth grade students failed again on a series of eight tests, finishing at the bottom of Japan's prefectures.  

An influential group asked the government Tuesday to disclose its documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty from the United States to prove there was a secret bilateral agreement over ...  

A shipwreck off the Kerama islands in Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a wartime U.S. vessel that was apparently sunk in a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.  

Photos by a now deceased U.S. Navy sailor taken in the days after the Battle of Okinawa during World War II were donated to the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum on Friday.  

Okinawa is a popular summer vacation destination among Japanese people. Okinawa prefecture consists of nearly 150 island scattered in a wide area, and the beautiful beaches and islands attract many tourists ...  

Photos by a now-deceased U.S. Navy sailor taken in the days after the Battle of Okinawa during World War II were donated to the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum on Friday.  

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Was the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty from the United States fairly carried out, or did the government flub its accountability? This has been questioned for more than 35 years by historians, ...  

A Russian navy intelligence ship has been in the Pacific off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, possibly to monitor radio wave data from U.S. forces, Japan's Kyodo News reported Aug.