The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force will open Camp Saga in July and house its V-22 Ospreys on former farmland west of Saga ...

The Department of Defense has scheduled “listening sessions” at three U.S. military bases in Japan next week to collect ...

In Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa, American troops landed on its main island on April 1, 1945 toward the end of World War Two. Eighty years since, people in Yomitan Village where US ...

After his meetings at MOD and MLIT, BG Goetz traveled to Okinawa, where he met with ... Indo-Pacific region while working closely with Japan to foster security, infrastructure resilience, and ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

TOKYO - Japan on March 27 unveiled a plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from southern islets near Taiwan – regarded by China as its territory – in case of an emergency. Ships and planes ...

The evacuees are expected to first transfer by private ferries or airplanes to certain airports and a port on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu, northeast of Okinawa Prefecture, before ...

Japan's government has compiled a plan to evacuate people from remote islands in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa in the event of emergencies. The plan, the first of its kind, was released ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – More than 6,000 visitors, including Camp Zama community members and Japanese guests, were here March 22 to celebrate the start of spring during the installation’s annual ...

For a country as safe and orderly as Japan, the terrorist attack was an unimaginable shock. It came just two months after the Great Hanshin earthquake, a 6.9-magnitude disaster that killed more ...

A memorial ceremony was held in an Okinawa Prefecture village on Wednesday ... which preceded fierce ground battles in the southwestern Japan prefecture during World War II.

By 15 years old, she had moved into a white shingled house in Madison, with an older foster parent who had no kids of her own. A lack of licensed families in the state means foster care can be a ...