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 ...

"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 ...

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

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

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., ...

During the Bilateral Aircraft Mishap Functional Training Exercise, U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders ...

A new United States Marines unit trained to defend strategic island chains in the Pacific Ocean is going to be deployed to Okinawa. The move is part of an agreement between the US and Japan to ...

Two months after the U.S. military landed on Okinawa in late March 1945, the 32nd Army decided to withdraw from the Naha headquarters and blow up the tunnels. The headquarters were moved to Mabuni ...

After hearing the news of Japan's surrender, Marines joyfully pose atop an amphibian tractor to celebrate the end of WWII and "Victory ... In 1983 the US Embassy in Beirut was bombed by Islamic ...

The Naha District Public Prosecutor's Office decided Thursday not to indict a U.S. Marine who had been investigated for alleged sexual assault in Okinawa ... you can help us get the story right.

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 ...