Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Pending repairs to the island airfield, the Air Force’s 18th Wing since December 2023 has made its training drops about once ...

A new Titan setting sets this third collection apart: the patented floating platform allows a diamond and mounting to be set without prongs or bezels. As such, the pieces seem to defy gravity, as with ...

Home to World War II sites and a distinct “Blue Zone” culinary culture, Okinawa has long been a secret getaway for locals, and serves as a refreshing alternative to Japan’s more well-trodden ...

Contractors hired by the Okinawa Defense Bureau, an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, began ground improvement work in Oura Bay on Dec. 28. The work involves solidifying the soft seabed to ...

Chinese state-owned manufacturing giant CRRC has installed a prototype 20MW floating offshore wind turbine that's among the largest ever erected globally. CRRC – best known as a leading railway ...

Visiting Okinawa, I was struck by how much it didn't feel like I was in Japan. Not only are the vast majority of buildings made of concrete, but they are designed in a unique Okinawan way.

A Chinese woman who made headlines two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in Okinawa is planning ... 10 years ago after studying in Japan and founded a dining business.

A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey transport aircraft has accidentally dropped a cargo pallet weighing 400-450 kilograms into waters near Ie Island in Okinawa Prefecture, prefectural officials said Tuesday.

Cargo weighing 400 to 450 kilograms dropped from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft was blown off course and ended up in waters near a small island in Okinawa in southern Japan, a prefectural government ...

Deicing, as it’s known, can occur before a flight begins to taxi to the runway, she said. Passengers were escorted off both flights, and a later Japan Airlines flight out of Seattle was canceled ...

A cherry blossom festival is attracting people to a mountain in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, ahead of other places in the country. About 7,000 cherry trees of the hikanzakura variety are ...