The Latest Breaking News from Okinawa

More than 100 people still trapped around Hualien; fatalities include three hikers and a van driver

Taiwan authorities report deaths in Hualien County, including three hikers, and say more than 900 were injured.

A few days before Christmas, Hong Kong activist Tony Chung boarded a flight to Okinawa, Japan, carrying nothing but a backpack -- his casual appearance a ruse to hide plans to seek political asylum in the UK. Chung was among the youngest people in Hong Kong to be convicted under…

A Japanese court has ordered the governor of Okinawa to approve the central government’s modified plan for landfill work at the planned relocation site of a key U.S. military base on the southern island despite persistent local opposition

Air Force announces ‘ongoing combined effort to recover the remaining crew members from the wreckage’

Two new species of pygmy squid have been discovered off Okinawa and named after mythical creatures.

Longevity researchers have detected patterns across the regions with unusually high rates of centenarians

Dan Buettner has spent decades exploring the lifestyles and diets of people in remote places where living to 100 is more common. Here are life-enhancing habits from these "blue zones."

Japan’s Supreme Court has dismissed Okinawa’s rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops’ presence