In Okinawa, tourists are helping track endangered sharks

Padi's new citizen-science diving programme is turning holidaymakers into ocean researchers as warming seas put reefs, sharks ...
Global News - Inquirer.net on MSN

Tsunami waves arrive in Japan after magnitude 7.8 quake off PH

Tsunami waves arrived in Okinawa and other parts of Japan on Monday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 ...
MSN on MSN

From Okinawa to Honshu - The siege that pushed Japan toward collapse

The brutal cost of Okinawa convinced Allied planners that invading mainland Japan could become a catastrophe on an ...
The Japan Times

JMA lifts tsunami advisory for Japan coastlines after strong quake off Philippines

The advisory was issued for coastal areas in Ibaraki, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Wakayama, Kochi, Miyazaki ...
Stars and Stripes

Marines get private rooms in new ‘barracks of the future’ complex on Okinawa

Each resident of the new barracks complex at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, gets a private 155-square-foot bedroom and a personal sink ...

Tsunami waves arrive in Japan after M7.8 quake off Philippines

Japan's weather agency on Monday issued a tsunami advisory for the Pacific coast of western and eastern Japan after a ...
The Diplomat

Okinawa Is the Key to Japan’s Defense – Even If Okinawans Don’t Like It

On September 4, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki is legally obligated to approve the relocation of a U.S. military base from the Okinawan district of Ginowan to ...