The commandant of the Marine Corps expressed concern ... booting roughly 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa, an island that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's total land mass, but houses 70% of ...

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

Okinawa was sacrificed by Japan's imperial army to defend the mainland ... is the central government’s insistence that a U.S. marine base in a crowded neighborhood, the Futenma air station ...

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

The new base will replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ... Roger Turner, the Okinawa area coordinator of U.S. Forces Japan, told The Asahi in late March that he had inspected the ...

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 ...

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

US Marine Corps MV-22 ... Air Station in Ginowan on Japan's southernmost island of Okinawa, March 24, 2018. [Reuters] Public sentiment toward U.S. military bases on the southern Japanese islands ...