Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this ...

Chinese state media tends to highlight crimes committed by US military personnel stationed in the region, and emphasize that ...

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 ...

Kadena senior Tobin Kaiser signs a partial scholarship to play lacrosse at NCAA Division II Chowan University of Murfreesboro ...

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

Many on Okinawa had hoped that the island's return to Japan would improve ... is the central government’s insistence that a U.S. marine base in a crowded neighborhood, the Futenma air station ...

Japan's plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall On a ...

Okinawa is Japan's southernmost island and is home to 32 U.S. military ... which prompted a protest by about 2,000 at the Marine Corps base in central Okinawa. The protesters wanted U.S. military ...

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.

which -- to me -- means being [in] the first island chain." Roughly 19,000 Marines are stationed in Okinawa, the vast majority of whom belong to the III Marine Expeditionary Force. The unit bills ...

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.