Yumi Matsumoto lived in Okinawa for 30 years before moving to America last year. She said while Okinawans do emphasize health and community, things are changing with the younger generation. Matsumoto ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An Okinawa woman faces up to a year in prison or fines after she allegedly hopped a fence over the weekend and was caught riding a bicycle around the Marine Corps base Camp ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in June revealed that 46 sets of remains the ministry recovered on Okinawa were scientifically identified as women, including one ...

Two US marines in Japan's Okinawa are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest incident to ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...

Actress Tamlyn Tomita, photographed in Glendale, reprises her role as Kumiko from "The Karate Kid Part II" in the Netflix series "Cobra Kai." (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Cue Peter Cetera's ...

It’s an unusual image – an Okinawan woman sharing her innermost thoughts with an American woman she barely knows. "My God, I didn’t think 50 years ago that I’d ever be sitting here with an American ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. The arrest of two American sailors on suspicion of raping a ...

Sgt. John James, a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for saving Tokiko Ahuso, a local Kin Town resident ...

IT DOESN'T COME IN A SLEEK BOTTLE. It doesn’t involve kale in unspeakable forms. And it doesn’t promise six-pack abs by Thursday. But the Okinawa diet — an eating pattern inspired by the traditional ...