The U.S. Air Force is expected to begin deploying F-15EX Eagle II fighters to the home of the 18th Wing next year, the wing ...

By the end of September 2020, however ... into the sections by the end of January this year. The ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau lists the landfill project on its website, but it states ...

Based in Naha, it was founded in the immediate wake of the September 1995 rape of an elementary schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen. The incident sparked outrage in Okinawa Prefecture and ...

NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her protests the past four years, including a threat ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

and September 16–20, 2025, at a cost of JPY 48,000 per person (approximately $320 USD). Beyond this unforgettable excursion, ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Tokyo sought the Okinawa prefectural government's permission to revise the reclamation plan, but it refused. The work remains on hold. In September, Japan's Supreme Court turned down Naha's appeal ...