The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

Although Okinawa makes up only 0.6 percent of Japan's territory, it hosts over half of the 50,000 American soldiers stationed in the country. The relocation of the Marines aims to alleviate this ...

The commandant of the Marine Corps expressed concern Wednesday over a U.S. agreement with the Japanese government that requires the service to move thousands of its troops off of Okinawa.

The III Marine Expeditionary Force, a task force in Japan, is “aware of allegations of criminal misconduct against an Okinawa-based U.S. service member,” spokeswoman First Lt. Isabel Izquierdo ...

The U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa Prefecture is restyling its regiment there as a littoral defense force suitable for rapid deployment to remote islands under enemy fire. The 12th Marine Regiment ...

Denny Tamaki, the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, has called for a timetable for the transfer of 9,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, after decades of local complaints regarding the U.S ...

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki’s final legal challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps airfield in the island’s north. The Tokyo court on ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop ...