Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered and, so far, the only area where it has been found. The Nansei Islands., also ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

Rhonda Dorothea Allen, 76, of Watervliet, MI, passed away peacefully at home on June 9, 2025, surrounded by loved ones.

The case has led frustrations to run high in Okinawa, where the U.S. continues to have a heavy military presence.

The researchers first thought that early humans might have used rafts, but earlier experiments proved rafts were too slow and ...

The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

A Japanese team has concluded that it was possible to travel from Taiwan to Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in a ...

ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...

Lance Cpl. James Clayton, 22, was found guilty of grabbing the woman from behind, choking her and unbuttoning her pants in an ...