Okinawan men fell from first to 43rd while women slipped to 16th in the last life expectancy survey, a slide that is expected ...

NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces began, the Japanese military built airbases throughout ...

After a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting an Okinawan woman in November, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (pictured in 2023) demanded "a firm response." File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI ...

IT DOESN'T COME IN A SLEEK BOTTLE. It doesn’t involve kale in unspeakable forms. And it doesn’t promise six-pack abs by Thursday. But the Okinawa diet — an eating pattern inspired by the traditional ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...