Students at Haebaru Junior High School in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture, experienced a unique peace-learning workshop about two weeks before Memorial Day marked the end of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/japan/okinawa-peace-education/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #wwii #students#highschools #juniorhighschools #education

Decades after the end of World War II, Okinawa has become a reluctant host for U.S. troops, with a string of incidents over the years that included sexual assault cases stoking the anger of residents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/japan/society/okinawa-reluctant-host-for-us-bases/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #okinawa#usbases

Okinawa Shogaku High School secured its first-ever Summer Koshien title at the National High School Baseball Championship on Saturday, defeating The Third High School of Nihon University 3-1 in the final. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/24/baseball/okinawa-school-koshien-title/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #okinawa#koshien #okinawashogakuhighschool

A memorial ceremony was held Friday to remember the more than 1,400 victims, including many schoolchildren, of the sinking of the Tsushima Maru evacuation ship in a U.S. torpedo attack 81 years ago during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/tsushima-maru-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tsushimamaru #okinawa #wwii #us

A fire on a U.S. Navy ship off Japan was finally put out after 12 hours early Thursday, the U.S. military has said, after local vessels spent most of the night dousing the blaze. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/society/navy-ship-fire-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #us #okinawa #japancoastguard

The U.S. military will deploy a new short-range air defense system in next month's joint drill with Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, informed sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/us-new-air-defense-system-japan-drill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #usjapanrelations #usmilitary#usbases #sdf #okinawa

Concerns are rising in Okinawa Prefecture over the dwindling number of lawmakers in the ruling LDP who put weight on measures to support the development of the prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/17/japan/politics/lack-of-okinawa-backers-in-ldp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #okinawa #usjapanrelations #us #usbases #ldp

Young volunteers and experts are racing against time to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during World War II, most of them abroad. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/history/bones-world-war-ii-remains/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #worldwarii #india #palau #asiapacific #okinawa

Should you start packing your bags for Junglia, Japan’s newest theme park in northern Okinawa? Only if you’re ready for the long lines, the unique pricing structure and the considerable effort it takes to get there. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/01/travel/okinawa-theme-park-junglia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #okinawa #junglia #themeparks #tourism

You see those white circles going from right toward upper left? That's the probable path for #Typhoon 7. Those other circles going upwards from the bottom? Most likely typhoon 8 in another day or so.

That area where the two storms kind of intersect? Yeah, that's where we're going on #holiday tomorrow...

#Okinawa #yonaguni

While many candidates in Sunday's Upper House election are heading to major cities for speeches and turning to social media, one candidate from Hokkaido is giving politics one last go-through a grassroots campaign. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/politics/muneo-suzuki-election-hokkaido/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #muneosuzuki #hokkaido #ldp #nipponishinnokai #2025upperhouseelection #okinawa #russia

Kyoto’s famed Kinkakuji was burned to the ground by a young Buddhist acolyte 75 years ago this month, shocking Japanese society and inspiring Yukio Mishima’s novel “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/05/japan/history/kinkakuji-destroyed-okinawa-expo-1925-1950-1975-2000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #hakone #infrastructure #kyoto #kinkakuji #arson #okinawa #europe #europeanunion

A senior officer of the U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday apologized to Okinawa Prefecture over a recent conviction of a Marine for sexually assaulting a woman in the prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/04/japan/crime-legal/us-military-apologizes-over-okinawa-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #usmilitary#usbases #okinawa #sexcrimes #japanesecourts

Japan has said that the construction of an evacuation shelter on the country's westernmost island of Yonaguni, in Okinawa Prefecture, will start next fiscal year, with the completion expected around spring 2028. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/28/japan/yonaguni-okinawa-japan-shelter/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #yonaguni #taiwan #china #defense