Okinawa, with the rich culture that has continued since the Ryukyu Kingdom, offers the pleasure of tasting dishes and drinks ...

Ryukyu Bingata symbolises the maritime kingdom's prosperity through trade and royal culture. Bingata is still dyed by hand.

The art of bingata has been a quiet symbol of resilience on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Now, it's being revived by the ...

You'll soon be able to fly directly to Okinawa again as Scoot will launch three new flight routes, including one to the ...

The Battle of Okinawa lasted nearly three months, killing some 200,000 people — about 12,000 Americans and more than 188,000 Japanese, half of them Okinawan civilians including students and ...

Today, a majority of the 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan under a bilateral security pact and 70% of U.S. military facilities are still in Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land.

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 island 80 years ...

Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 years ago, from April 1 to June 22, 1945.

As people globally commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, dozens of people living on the Japanese ...

China and Japan remain locked in a game of cat-and-mouse near the Senkaku Islands, with China this year setting another ...

Okinawa prefecture and two towns adjacent to Kadena Air Base have made formal protests to U.S. and Japanese authorities after ...