The Marine Corps is integrating new weapons and refining its island defense strategy alongside Japan to counter any military crisis in the Indo-Pacific region, the Marines’ top general on Okinawa said.

The Japanese Defense Ministry has announced that Chinese J-15 fighter aircraft took off from China's Liaoning aircraft carrier near the southern island of Okinawa and intermittently locked its radar onto Japan's Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets twice on December 6.

The leak was caused by the rupture of a water pipe laid in the village of Ogimi in the northern part of Okinawa Island.

Japan has just had another incident involving its underground water pipe system. This incident is considered a warning about the deterioration of underground structures that are due for repair, maintenance or replacement.

NAHA, Japan — A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan's southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation. Many residents in the prefectural ...

NAHA—A burst pipe connected to a dam on the main Okinawa island cut off water supplies to about 370,000 households across 17 municipalities on Nov. 24, the Okinawa prefectural government said.

Children pray in front of the "Peace of Fire" at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa, Japan, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Okinawan people find it unacceptable that their land is still occupied by a heavy U.S. military presence even 75 years after World ...

On Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without much notice from the outside world. TIME Correspondent ...