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 ...

Part of that plan includes booting roughly 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa, an island that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's ... on its newest base there, Camp Blaz. "Guam puts us on the other ...

(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 ...

Okinawa residents and the island's governor, Denny Tamaki, have long complained about accidents and crime related to U.S military bases, expressed anger over the alleged crime and lack of disclosure.

But U.S. military bases that had routinely used firefighting foam are also thought to be a key source of PFAS contamination. Okinawa ... he said. “Japan’s SOFA with the United States should ...

This frustration is perhaps most evident on the southern island of Okinawa, which despite comprising just 0.6% of Japan’s landmass, hosts most of the country’s US military bases.Okinawa is ...

China had protested what it called "close-in reconnaissance" of Chinese territory by the U.S. military in the past.

The United States has sent at least four ... America's F-35A stealth fighter jets at Kadena Air Base on Japan's Okinawa Island last Monday. Kadena is a U.S. military hub in the region, where ...

Okinawa Prefecture said Friday that Japan's Supreme Court has not accepted its appeal claiming the state's overturning of its rejection of a modified landfill plan for a controversial U.S. military ...