Luring visitors with golden beaches and picturesque palm trees, Okinawa is a wandering knight, never failing to surprise travellers with a backstory that's even more enticing. What awaits is, quite ...

Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.

Okinawa continues to host many US bases. 70 percent of US military facilities in Japan are still concentrated in this tiny part of the country. "I want the US bases to disappear from the island.