Keiko Itokazu Okinawans have long felt caught between the United States and Japan, which sent troops to claim the Okinawan island chain in the 1870s. Prior to that, Okinawa was known as the ...

Okinawa is part of the “first island chain,” which refers to a chain of islands in the Pacific that includes Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, which would be the front line in a ...

A new United States Marines unit trained to defend strategic island chains in the Pacific Ocean is going to be deployed to Okinawa. The move is part of an agreement between the US and Japan to ...

Yappari Steak is a steakhouse chain from Okinawa, Japan. According to the Yappari Group, it serves its signature thick-cut, rare beef slices on hot plates made from Mount Fuji lava. When ...

Okinawa Prefecture, in fiscal 2023. The primary objective of the deployment is to erase a defense vacuum along the Nansei island chain extending southwest from the main southern island of Kyushu.