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

Part of that plan includes 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 all U.S. military facilities in the ...

An American professor and a Japanese author, speaking to reporters Friday in Tokyo, said their nations should take a less ...

NAHA--The U.S. Marine Corps based in Okinawa Prefecture should be decentralized and deployed in smaller units to the Japanese mainland, according to a draft proposal of an expert panel.

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 III Marine Expeditionary Force, a task force in Japan, is “aware of allegations of criminal misconduct against an Okinawa-based U.S. service member,” spokeswoman First Lt. Isabel Izquierdo ...

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

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

a Japanese air force unit that was formed in 2016 and is based at Naha Air Base on Okinawa Island. The Naha-based fighter jets scrambled against Chinese military aircraft approaching Japan's ...

In their first official dialogue, newly appointed US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani ...