Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

The redeployment of U.S. forces to Guam and other locations has already been met with sharp criticism from Marine Corps officials, notably Commandant General Eric Smith.

"Guam puts us on the other side ... international security aims. Okinawa was under post-World War II occupation until 1972, but still bears the lion's share of military facilities and personnel ...

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 ...

Crowl, Campaign in the Marianas, United States Army in World War II (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1960), 191–201. 20. SBB Diary 1944:2, 7 Oct 1944. 22. Roy E. Appleman et al., ...

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

The serviceman, who is believed to be in his 30s, is suspected of allegedly raping a woman “older than 20” in an undisclosed building at Camp Foster in Ginowan City on Okinawa Island in ...

The national flag of the United States of America (Mainichi) NAHA (Kyodo) -- A sexual assault case in November in Okinawa involving a U.S. Marine was referred to prosecutors on Wednesday ...