Okinawa
First joint patrol in decades aims to restore trust on Okinawa amid misconduct cases
A rare joint patrol of the nightlife area outside Kadena Air Base by U.S. military and Okinawa authorities ended with a Marine colonel reminding U.S. service members they had broken curfew.
John Wayne scouts Okinawa for Green Beret film sites
Film star John Wayne and director Ray Kellogg flew back to the U.S. Wednesday after a one-day visit here in search of location sites for a new film to be shot this summer about the Green Berets.
60 years after his death, Ernie Pyle is still revered by servicemembers
Sixty years after Ernie Pyle’s death, veterans and active servicemembers still spoke with reverence Sunday about a man who turned the “average Joe” American GIs he interviewed into heroes in the eyes of millions back home.
Yomitan: Okinawa takes its past to art
On an old U.S. Air Force runway-turned-village road there is a 100-meter long cement and plaster wall exhibit depicting more than seven decades of Japan and U.S. military presence on Okinawa.
Thousands protest retention of U.S. base
Okinawans gathered by the hundreds to welcome reversion Monday, and by the thousands to protest the inclusion of U.S. bases in the reversion agreement.
U.S., Japan ties hailed at reversion rites
History was bittersweet at the Okinawa reversion ceremony here Monday morning at the Nihon Budokan. For the older members of the 10,000 Japanese in attendance the dignified affair recalled memories of a bloody battle 27 years ago.
Okinawa reversion ushers in confusion
There is confusion, some open resentment, frantic hoarding, a great deal of worry, and a sprinkling of "who cares" in this Ryukyuan capital as the moment when it will become a Japanese prefectural capital begins to be measured in hours and minutes.