Luring visitors with golden beaches and picturesque palm trees, Okinawa is a wandering knight, never failing to surprise ...

The 1975 Okinawa Ocean Expo, a huge event to celebrate the prefecture's May 15, 1972, return to Japanese sovereignty, named its mascot Oki-chan, which it also bestowed upon the Indo-Pacific ...

The Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau plans to begin full-scale work soon. This ground improvement work aims to enhance the physical properties of an extremely soft ocean floor in some ...

The Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival will open with 'Ocean Elergy: The Tragedies Of Mudan And Ryukyu'.

A Marine Corps Osprey accidentally dropped a load of rations weighing nearly 1,000 pounds into the ocean west of Okinawa during training last week. An aircraft assigned to an unspecified squadron ...

NAKIJIN, Okinawa -- More than 200 impressive red columns at a public hall here have been letting the soothing ocean breezes blow through for almost half a century. The Nakijinson Central Public ...

Japan's Okinawa Pan-Pacific Film Festival reveals 2025 lineup with Taiwan doc 'Ocean Elegy' opening, New Zealand drama 'Tinā' ...

The U.S. and Japanese governments agreed to move the base in 1996, but the Okinawa prefectural government has repeatedly delayed construction. Oil seepage was confirmed on the ocean surface around ...

Sean Hu’s “Ocean Elegy: The Tragedies of Mudan and ... will world premiere as the opening film of Japan‘s Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival.