Polaris Holdings Co., Ltd (JP:3010) has released an update. Polaris Holdings Co., Ltd. is set to expand its hotel operations in Okinawa with a ...

Hal Silberman had his first conversation with God when he was in Okinawa. Silberman, then 19, served as a communications and decoding officer aboard the battleship USS Arkansas during World War II. “I ...

Marine Corps veteran James Despard was witnessed an atomic bomb at Operation Plumbbob in 1957. Read about his experience to ...

Bishop was killed in World War II in Okinawa. She was 3 1/2 years old. Her sisters, Ona and Billie, were 2 1/2 and 1 1/2. The sisters visit Bishop’s grave in Kossuth Cemetery and speak of him often.

The skies will be partly cloudy. The low will be 75°. Moderate air quality (51-100) Primary pollutant O₃ 65 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard ...

Training in karate was not always easy for Nobuko Oshiro, who faced bullying and harsh treatment from her instructors as one of the few women in the sport. Now at 77, she is Okinawa’s only female ...

Japan has grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft again after an incident last Sunday where one of the hybrid ...

The Tritons, which arrived at the 18th Wing’s home in May, carried out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ...

A squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcons recently became the latest to complete a fighter rotation on Okinawa as Kadena Air Base ...

1893 Sep.15 The first newspaper in Okinawa, the Ryukyu Shimpo, is published for the first time, the president being Jun Sho, and Chofu Ota the editor-in-chief. The Paper had a four-page format, ...

TOKYO/NAHA — Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba’s long-standing call to revise the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement has been causing a stir in Okinawa Prefecture ...