Ikemiya Shokai Co. Ltd., a printing and scanning company in Naha, Okinawa, contacted the Marine Corps last year with an offer to create an interactive computer model of the old U.S. naval hospital on Camp Lester, company president Taku Ikemiyagi said Aug. 24. The final product would work similar to Google Street View.

A group of US and Japanese historians are breaking a taboo and distributing black sand from Iwo Jima to relatives of Japanese soldiers who perished in the bloody WWII battle.

Japan is searching for the entrance to a cave complex on Iejima and the remains of more than 100 Japanese soldiers killed in April 1945.

The U.S. and Japan have formalized an agreement to protect a World Heritage site on the northern tip of Okinawa where U.S. troops once trained for jungle warfare.

The 528-page tome through a series of vignettes portrays a variety of perspectives, from civilian war refugees to Japanese and American soldiers, local farmers, protesters and Okinawans working for the U.S. military.

Japanese police arrested two Marines on Okinawa on suspicion of drunken driving after a separate pair of crashes, one involving injuries to a Japanese driver and child passenger.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in June revealed that 46 sets of remains the ministry recovered on Okinawa were scientifically identified as women, including one child.

Tropical Storm Khanun rumbled toward Japan and South Korea on Monday after a second pass of Okinawa left roads there littered with debris and thousands still without power.

Sometime during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, Marine Sgt. Alvin Josephy Jr. recorded a running commentary during deafening, close-quarter Marine combat with Japanese defenders.

Typhoon Khanun has left behind flooding, uprooted trees, power outages and injuries on Okinawa but may not be finished with Japan’s southernmost prefecture.