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

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.

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

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 ...

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

The serviceman, who is believed to be in his 30s, is suspected of allegedly raping a woman “older than 20” in an undisclosed building at Camp Foster in Ginowan City on Okinawa Island in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday sent papers on a U.S. Marine in his 30s to public prosecutors for alleged nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury. Police notified the ...