A Japanese court upheld a U.S. Marine’s conviction for strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman at her Okinawa home in May 2024.

Okinawa Naha Airport expects further rapid international growth as it begins to tap into the Southeast Asian market. Okinawa has seen a surge in international traffic, driven by new flights within ...

Naha, in Okinawa, is a hilly city. At the top of one prominent hill is Shuri Castle, which hosted the royal court of the Ryukyu Islands for 450 years. Naha, the center of Ryukyu culture, grew around ...

A Japanese high court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence given to a 23-year-old U.S. Marine charged with nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury to a woman in Okinawa ...

U.S. military police will conduct a patrol in Naha in the early hours of Nov. 1, in an effort to prevent a recurrence of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel in the prefecture, ...

U.S. military halts solo patrols in Okinawa nightlife areas pending probe into an incident involving a military police ...

Recently discovered images of prewar life in Naha not only depict ordinary folk walking the streets barefoot but also offer other tantalizing glimpses of the city before much of it was razed by U.S.

NAHA—In a case that drew outrage in Okinawa Prefecture, a U.S. airman was sentenced to five years in prison on Dec. 13 over the abduction and rape of a girl under 16. The Naha District Court found ...