Coast guard rescuers pulled all 21 people out of the water, but a 17-year-old student and the captain of one of the boats ...

Coast guard rescuers pulled all 21 people out of the water, but a 17-year-old female student and the captain of Fukutsu were later pronounced dead, officials said. Two people were injured but their ...

Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa. The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students ...

Two people were killed after two boats taking part in a protest against the relocation of a US military base capsized off the ...

A 17-year-old female student and a boat captain were pronounced dead after all 21 on board the two vessels were thrown into ...

Okinawa Prefectural Government and Henoko Base Construction Countermeasures Division: Outline. As part of the commemorations of 80 ye ...

A civic group has asked for on-site investigations of U.S. bases for possible leaks but the U.S. military has turned down the ...

Denny Tamaki, born to a Japanese mother and an American US Marine father, said he wanted to see Tokyo and Washington spread the burden of hosting US troops more evenly across Japan. "I am not asking ...

People in Okinawa Prefecture are increasingly concerned over a series of cases in which mysterious white foam appeared from manholes near U.S. military facilities in the southernmost Japan prefecture.

A water outage in southern and central Okinawa that was resolved by Tuesday afternoon had minimal effects on U.S. military installations on the island, according to the military and the prefecture.

As part of the commemorations of 80 years since the end of World War Two, Okinawa Prefecture has created a series of video shorts, “Bases and Peace,” and published them on its special “Bases and Peace ...