As thousands gather in Okinawa’s capital city for the annual Naha Great Tug of War Festival, Okinawans from Hawaii were also ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

NMESIS itself is a game-changer: a mobile, ground-based launcher packing two stealthy Kongsberg Naval Strike Missiles with a ...

Tomiichi Murayama, a former prime minister who issued a landmark statement of “remorse” for Japan’s actions in World War II, ...

I dreamt last night that all the writers and editors at the Star-Advertiser were in meetings, sick or on vacation, and I had ...

Henry Hector Boubel, a Laredo native and WWII veteran, witnessed Japan's surrender, survived pivotal battles, and left a ...

U.S. military police will expand solo patrols to Okinawa prefecture’s capital, Naha city, continuing an effort to stem crime ...

Most of U.S. troops in Japan are stationed in Okinawa TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- The U.S. military in Japan has charged a Marine with rape and other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in ...

World War II veteran John "Jack" Cowell celebrated his 101st birthday on Tuesday by saluting his comrades in arms. Literally.