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

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied the governor of Okinawa’s final challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps ...

Battalion, 4th Marines was captured in World War II and reforged from the Marine Corps' first Raider units. Now it will ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

Last month, the United States Marine Corps began the "partial transfer" of personnel from Okinawa to Guam. The move came 12 ...

Moving Marines from Okinawa to Guam “puts us going the wrong way,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith told reporters at ...

After comprehensive consideration, the prosecutor's office determined that it is difficult to build a case against the marine ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A U.S. Marine allegedly sexually assaulted an Okinawan woman in November, which is the fourth alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa in 2024. Okinawa Prefecture ...

The III Marine Expeditionary Force, a task force in Japan, is “aware of allegations of criminal misconduct against an Okinawa-based U.S. service member,” spokeswoman First Lt. Isabel Izquierdo ...

A U.S. Marine was not indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year in Okinawa Prefecture, prosecutors said. The serviceman in his 30s, who is in U.S. custody, was referred to ...

(Mainichi/Nozomu Takeuchi) NAHA (Kyodo) -- A U.S. Marine was not indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year in Okinawa Prefecture, prosecutors said Thursday. The serviceman in ...