Typhoon Usagi, also referred to as Typhoon No. 25, was getting stronger and moving in a west-northwest direction east of the ...

One week after Donald Trump claimed victory in the US presidential election, Okinawans who have been campaigning for a ...

Typhoon Usagi is expected to come close to the south of Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological ...

BTAS Inc., of Beavercreek, and Solutions Through Innovative Technologies, of Fairborn, were among 12 companies awarded a $2.5 billion multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract ...

Yonaha Momoko, a member of the student nurse corps who survived World War Two's Battle of Okinawa, has died at 96. She dedicated much of her life to traveling around Japan and passing on her wartime ...

Naha and Nago were home to Japan's biggest call center operations, receiving around 125,000 calls a day at their peak in 1999 ...

Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential ...

Travelling in the southern tip of Japan can be gloriously slow or boisterously jolly as one explores the many attractions of ...

(Pakistan-Counter-Terrorism) TOKYO -- Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential rains are drenching the country's ...

Heavy rain mainly hit the city of Nago and the villages of Kunigami, Higashi and Ogimi. In Higashi, 48-hour rainfall until 11 a.m. Sunday totaled 637.5 millimeters, a record high for the area.