Karatekas ranging from junior first dan all the way to third dan completed their gradings. GEORGE NEWS - Southern Cape ...

OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture--One day in April, a fruit-and-vegetable man spoke to a shopper in broken English at a farmer’s market here because he assumed she was a foreigner. When Malia Higa ...

Sensei Bob Smith has been attending the World Budosai karate festival hosted by the International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation in Okinawa, Japan, since 1991. However in July, he was ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese prosecutors last week charged a U.S. Marine on Okinawa with sexually assaulting and injuring a woman this summer, the third such case on the island since December.

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — The Marines’ seaborne quick-reaction force on Okinawa now has a dedicated support group, the latest step toward transforming the service’s forces to counter China in ...

In the Sao Paulo neighbourhood of Liberdade, samba and Japanese tradition often mix Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan?

The islands of Okinawa, located in southern Japan, are home to more centenarians—people aged 100 or older—than anywhere else in the world. People living in Okinawa have a lower rate of cancer ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture posted more deaths than births from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, its first annual natural population decline since such counts became available in 1975. A prefectural ...

Maui held its first Okinawan festival in 5 years to great success Saturday, an event that many in Maui’s aging Okinawan ...