The new base will replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in Okinawa Prefecture. It is being built on reclaimed land off Nago’s Henoko district, and the project has ...

If that's the case, it will disrupt the operation of the new base. A deadlock in the Futenma air base relocation plan would end up leaving the base where it is now as "the world's most dangerous ...

By his own estimate, Cancian said using the U.S. Kadena Air Base in the prefecture for some of the helicopters based at Futenma might prove to be an “attractive” alternative if it is ever ...

The US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma has been described as the world's most dangerous base. Just three days later, Clinton ordered Secretary of Defense William Perry, who served in Okinawa ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

At Kadena, the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deployed F-16C Fighting Falcons to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan ...

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the ministry hailed the development as a "major step forward for the full return of Futenma air station," adding it will continue to do its utmost to achieve the base ...

Okinawa Prefecture said Friday that Japan's Supreme Court has not accepted its appeal claiming the state's overturning of its ...

Tokyo will suspend construction on a new U.S. air base for one month in order to hold talks with Okinawan officials. Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, a vocal opponent of the Futenma relocation plan ...

Tokyo wants to move the US Futenma Air Station out of densely populated ... "If they want to move the base, it should be relocated outside the prefecture," he said. A resident of Henoko said ...