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NAGANO—Okinawa Prefecture once boasted the longest life expectancy in the country, but it has now dropped well out of the top 10.

Denny Tamaki is in charge of a chain of islands in what many people consider a dangerous neighborhood. As governor of the Okinawa Prefecture, he oversees about 160 inhabited and uninhabited islands in ...

Find serenity on land and in the sea ...

Incumbent Nago mayor Taketoyo Toguchi was assured of his third term in Sunday's election, Kyodo News projections showed, in a ...

Demonstrators gather in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on August 22, 2024 to protest against the relocation of US Marine ...

The turquoise water lapping against Okinawa's pebbled beach is so clear that you can see an occasional parrotfish streaking by. Just behind it, the Hoshinoya Okinawa's low-slung modernist villas blend ...

White foam was found emerging from a manhole in a residential area in Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday, with local authorities saying that a sewer running beneath the manhole is connected to the nearby ...

TOKYO — Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki announced Wednesday he’s traveling soon to the United States to lobby Cabinet officials, Congress and the American public to reduce the U.S. military footprint in his ...

According to the report, the woman was killed after being struck by wind generated by a U.S. military helicopter.