A Japanese court sentenced a U.S. airman to five years in prison with hard labor immediately after convicting him of sexually ...

The bones were found on March 21 by a contractor conducting an environmental survey at a construction site on the Marine ...

In the Okinawan survey, 20 percent said the bases are “very much” necessary for Japan’s security ... percent in the Okinawa survey opposed the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air ...

As regional tensions escalate, particularly concerning the Taiwan Strait, discussions of Okinawa often fall prey to ...

It was set up in 2019 to explore ways to ease the U.S. base burden on Okinawa Prefecture, home to 70 percent of the U.S. military installations on Japan. The group conducted an analysis of the ...

The prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday marks the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan ... the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station — which is dubbed "the most dangerous base in the world ...

The LDP is using its position as Japan's governing party to make life difficult for Okinawa's new anti-base governor.

Okinawa hosts the bulk of US military facilities in Japan. On Monday ... In 2016, an ex-Marine employed at one of the bases was found guilty of assaulting and killing a 20-year-old local woman ...

According to the Reuters news agency, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary ... The US government wants to move Futenma, one of several Marine bases in Okinawa, to a more remote location on the island.

New deployment of units to be incorporated in joint operation plan of Tokyo, Washington next month - Anadolu Ajansı ...