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

Japanese prosecutors on Okinawa will not pursue charges against a U.S. Marine accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in November, a spokesman said Friday. The Naha Public Prosecutors ...

Police in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday sent papers on a U.S. Marine in his 30s to public prosecutors for alleged nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury. Police notified the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NAGO, Okinawa Prefecture--U.S. Marines in Okinawa Prefecture have begun moving to Guam under an agreement Tokyo originally reached 18 years ago with Washington. The first batch of about 100 ...

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 ...

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 ...