Okinawa Travel News

Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period are slowly coming to...

The Documents [Yuki Tanaka is Research Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute and an Asia-Pacific Jurnal coordinator. He is the coeditor with Marilyn Young of Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History. He wrote this article for The Asia-Pacific Journal.] At first glance,...

Ambassador Karl Eikenberry has sent a number of diplomatic messages to Washington over the past week, questioning the wisdom of increasing troop numbers when the Afghan political situation is unstable and uncertain. The former army general was the top US...

Tears welled up in Ken Johnston’s eyes as the painful memories caused his voice to catch in his throat...Johnston, 85, saw action in both Europe and the Pacific during World War II and was recalled to active duty when hostilities...