III Marine Expeditionary Force chief Lt. Gen. Roger Turner says the force is working with the Self-Defense Forces to boost ...

BEIJING – China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa — A 100-million-year-old reproductive ritual continued this week at this small Army installation on Okinawa’s western coast. A green sea turtle crawled ashore early Wednesday at ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Living808’s Okinawa Week is gearing up for this weekend’s Okinawan Festival with a look back at an historic event that laid the foundation for The Hawaii Okinawa Center. “After the ...

Many of the sea grapes on the market are contrary to their names and are not grown in the sea as natural or aquaculture, but are grown in land-based vinyl houses like fruits and vegetables. However, ...

Mozuku is a unique Okinawan seaweed. Scientifically known as Cladosiphon okamuranus, this alga is popular in Japanese cuisine, and it has been farmed for more than 35 years. The cultivation of this ...

Ryo Minemizu in the sea of Okinawa in 2018 has attracted the interest of many biologists, as it ``captures an unidentified aquatic creature.'' Analysis revealed that this object was a colony formed by ...

A salvage crew retrieved a large part of the crashed Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter from waters off Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 2. A ship of a private company commissioned by the ...