A survey by the Okinawan government found that levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in water supplies near U.S. military bases ...

The arrival of the American military in Okinawa in the spring of 1945 marked the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles in ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday handed a U.S. Marine Corps spouse a suspended sentence for sending liquid cannabis to Okinawa ...

Japan pays the US $1.4 billion each year for the bases in Okinawa, which underpin their military alliance. But does the ...

The history of troop sexual misconduct on Okinawa, an island that bears the lion's share of infrastructure and military personnel in Japan, goes back decades. In 1995, a sailor and two Marines ...

The 1970s brought a seismic shift to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Far East. On May 15, 1972, after nearly three ...

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines ...

Okinawa Prefecture hosts the bulk of U.S. military installations in Japan, and anti-base sentiment runs deep due to aircraft noise, pollution and crimes committed by American service members. The ...

Under the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement ... A number of sex crimes linked to U.S. military personnel in Okinawa Prefecture were revealed in succession since June last year, reigniting ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flare tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern Okinawa Prefecture in Japan on Tuesday, the local Defense Ministry bureau ...

The accident adds to longstanding concerns in Okinawa over the safety risks associated with hosting 70 percent of all exclusively U.S. military facilities in Japan on the island. In 2017 ...

The world was changing fast in 1957. The Cold War was heating up, American forces were becoming more entrenched in Asia, and ...