Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular ...

Toward the end of World War Two, Okinawa was pounded by a huge amount of ordnance, estimated at a total of around 200,000 tons. About 10,000 tons of it is thought not to have exploded.

Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War ...

A company tasked with searching for dud shells discovered one of two unexploded bombs Oct. 8 and the other three days later.

The airport was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and targeted by U.S. aircraft during the conflict.

NHK has learned that what appeared to be an unexploded World War Two bomb has been found at Naha Airport in Okinawa. It was ...

On China's National Day on October 1, Chinese posts dismissing Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa repeatedly shared an old ...

The US and Japan have had a security cooperation treaty in place since 1960. Kadena Air Base is literally the biggest symbol ...

A World War II FG-1D Corsair, courtesy of the National ... enemy aircraft in combat patrol operations in the vicinity of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, on April 16, 1945. Lerch was awarded the Navy ...

Experts say while such bombs are usually safe and damage likely to be limited, the difficulty is in finding those that are ...

In one sense, the almost 80-year-old Chance Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft has come home. The warbird, which served from the end of World War II through the Korean War, along with a host of other ...

NAHA, Japan - Prosecutors in Okinawa prefecture on Sept 20 indicted a US Marine over alleged nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury. On Sept 5, the Okinawa prefectural police sent ...