Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this ...

Air Force civil engineers are inspecting another 263 homes for spalling concrete, a month after announcing families in ...

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

U.S. military presence on Okinawa has strained relations with the ... $2.8 billion for infrastructure projects at Camp Blaz, Naval Base Guam and Andersen Air Force Base. The U.S. will fund ...

Chinese state media tends to highlight crimes committed by US military personnel stationed in the region, and emphasize that ...

After WWII, most of Okinawa’s population were placed in internment camps, and the U.S. seized swathes of land and built military bases. While America’s occupation of Japan ended in 1951 ...

Recently, the military has built new bases and ... Since 1995, anti-base protests have escalated in Okinawa, where there are still more than 30 bases. A “temporary” base has existed since ...

Sand deposition for work reinforcing soft soil as part of the U.S. military base transfer within Okinawa Prefecture began Saturday, Japan's Defense Ministry said, marking progress in the controversial ...

People in Okinawa are coming out in force to protest ... and arrested him outside a US military base. Marine Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton is stationed at Camp Schwab. A crowd of about 100 gathered ...

Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a ...

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.