Okinawa accounts for just 0.6 per cent of Japan’s land mass but hosts about 70 per cent of all the US military bases and facilities in the country. Base-related woes have long grieved Okinawans ...

These costs have heightened debate over whether the United States needs so many ... Since 1995, anti-base protests have escalated in Okinawa, where there are still more than 30 bases.

as well as from the United States. The U.S. military hasn’t told the Okinawa Defense Bureau which bases these aircraft belong to, citing security reasons. According to the town of Kadena's ...

A wide gap exists between Okinawa Prefecture and ... the security of both Japan and the United States.” In the Okinawan survey, 20 percent said the bases are “very much” necessary for ...

A Japanese high court has ruled in favor of the central government in a long-running dispute over a plan to relocate a US military base within Okinawa Prefecture. A high court on Wednesday ordered ...

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...

Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan scheduled its sessions on Monday from 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. and again from 11 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Camp Foster, on Okinawa, will host its sessions during the ...

In 2016, the rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman by a former US base worker in Okinawa triggered mass protests in the island’s capital, with tens of thousands of residents demanding the US ...

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NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her protests the past four years, including a threat ...