During the Bilateral Aircraft Mishap Functional Training Exercise, U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders ...

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

Chinese state media tends to highlight crimes committed by US military personnel stationed in the region, and emphasize that ...

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 ...

Nago, Okinawa ... Japan on Wednesday started work to set piles into the seabed on the Oura Bay side of the Henoko coastal area in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, as part of a U.S. base ...

A group of lawmakers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting that he looks into the higher rental costs ...

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 ...

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.

(Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake) NAHA (Kyodo) -- Okinawa Prefecture said Friday that Japan's Supreme Court has ... plan for a controversial U.S. military base transfer was illegal. The court decision ...

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 ...

Tensions rise as Beijing stokes Okinawa independence movement with propaganda and diplomatic outreach for potential Taiwan ...