The new base will replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in Okinawa Prefecture. It is being built on reclaimed land off Nago’s Henoko district, and the project has ...

The forced relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa Prefecture ... to the construction of a new U.S. military base in Henoko, a coastal area of the city of Nago ...

Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of ...

The US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma has been described as the world's most dangerous base. Just three days later, Clinton ordered Secretary of Defense William Perry, who served in Okinawa ...

American warplanes could be kept from joining the fray of a conflict with China for days or weeks, analysts have concluded.

A new medical center equipped with advanced instruments has opened at the site of the former West Futenma Housing Area ... results of reducing Okinawa's base-hosting burden," Chief Cabinet ...

Tokyo will suspend construction on a new U.S. air base for one month in order to hold talks with Okinawan officials. Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, a vocal opponent of the Futenma relocation plan ...

Tokyo wants to move the US Futenma Air Station out of densely populated ... "If they want to move the base, it should be relocated outside the prefecture," he said. A resident of Henoko said ...