ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced on Sunday that the rainy ... Meanwhile, the agency also announced on Sunday that the rainy season has likely ended in Okinawa, with the end coming 13 days ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid their respects to the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, accompanied by their daughter Princess ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress and their daughter have paid their respects to the victims of a ship that sank in a US attack while evacuating hundreds of children from Okinawa during World War Two.

FORT CAVAZOS — The historic 3rd U.S. Cavalry Regiment welcomed its 81st colonel, Col. William B. Chastain, in a change-of-command ceremony Thursday morning. Outgoing commander Col. Jeffrey Barta ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to honor the dead ahead of the 80th anniversary of one of the harshest battles of World War II. On what was his ...

Police in Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 26-year-old woman on suspicion of parental neglect after she left her two sons, aged 5 and 3, at home alone for nearly ... Learn how to ...

WASHINGTON, June 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ... to the alliance and voiced his desire to deepen trilateral cooperation with Japan. Rubio issued a statement after Lee ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II that was fought on the southern Japanese ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, arrived in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday to mourn those killed in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II 80 years ago.