Twenty-five years ago, on Sept. 4, 1995, a 12-year-old girl was abducted, beaten and raped in the village of Kin, Okinawa Prefecture, by three U.S. servicemen — two marines and a naval medic.

KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese troops over the weekend served as the “key bilateral training event” of Iron Fist, ...

Contamination has become a major point of concern on Okinawa where U.S. air bases have used the firefighting foam. Kin began annual water sampling for PFAS in 2019, the town’s spokesman said.

KIN, Okinawa -- A resident living near a U.S. military base in this Okinawa Prefecture town reported on the afternoon of July 7 that a glass window at ...

In July 2018, the Okinawa Branch of the Naha District Court ordered the two soldiers to pay a total of 26.42 million yen (about $246,890) in damages -- close to the amount the family had sought.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was the culmination of over 4-and-a-half-years of planning and construction to provide residents of Okinawa an easier commute in the local area of Kin Town and Camp Hansen.

As of the end of April, a total of 161 stores, including restaurants and a major local supermarket chain, were taking part in the program.

KIN, Okinawa Prefecture--A man living in the Igei district here near a U.S. Marine Corps base discovered a broken window at his home on July 6 and found what looked like a bullet the following ...

People walk. past the game of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Hansen, in Kin, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan, on Jan. 6, 2022. Okinawa, a southwestern group of islands, which houses most of the ...

NAHA--Prefectural authorities in Okinawa announced the first known case of a local resident confirmed infected with the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.