Intel contradicts Trump on Iran strike and Iran executes spies as ceasefire with Israel faces new pressure. Morning brief for June 25, 2025.

There is a reason Okinawa is called “Japan’s Hawaii.” With a rich history tracing from the Stone Age through the Ryūkyū Kingdom, the lush archipelago offers endless culture, flourishing natural parks, ...

Mary, the tunnel boring machine, is expected to finish the second tunnel by September.

1 / 4 Show Caption + U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa Commander Lt. Col. Rachel Bowers wipes down a section of the Cornerstone of Peace monument at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan, June 7 ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, arrived in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday to mourn those killed in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II 80 years ago. It ...

I was going to write on the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa for Memorial Day (Okinawa didn’t end until June 22, 80 years ago), but Mark Wright mentioned the great John Basilone to me and I wrote ...

The Virginia Dept. of Transportation’s largest ever highway construction project—the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion—will double capacity with two new 7,900-ft-long bored tunnels and ...

About 35 Okinawa civilian and U.S. military leaders met in a promised forum at Camp Foster to discuss cooperative measures to stem criminal behavior by U.S. service members on the island.

Japanese police are investigating two Marines accused of sexual assault on Okinawa, Japan, according to several news reports and tacit confirmation from the service in which a spokesperson did not ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan are under investigation for alleged rapes, police say, the latest in a string of assault cases that have angered residents .

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.

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing. Now, 80 years later, bones are still being unearthed in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, plagued by one of ...