Okinawans opposed to the U.S. military picket Oct. 8 outside a hotel where the prefecture's governor and ministers from Tokyo met to discuss the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Instead, Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima told reporters in Washington that the controversial Marine Corps Air Station Futenma should be moved off of Okinawa entirely, to some other alternative ...

The Japanese and U.S. governments initially agreed in 1996 to close the Futenma air station, a year after the rape of a schoolgirl by three U.S. military personnel led to a massive anti-base movement.

The Japanese and U.S. governments initially agreed in 1996 to close the Futenma air station a year after the rape of a schoolgirl by three U.S. military personnel led to a massive anti-base movement.

10 minute read A man protesting the American military presence stands outside the U.S. Futenma air base in Ginowan, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, on July 26, 2013Nathan Layne ...

The Japanese and U.S. governments initially agreed in 1996 to close the Futenma air station a year after the rape of a schoolgirl by three U.S. military personnel led to a massive anti-base movement.

GINOWAN, JAPAN -- The people of Okinawa and the U.S. Marine Corps agree on at least one thing: The Futenma Marine air station is a noisy dinosaur that needs to move elsewhere -- and soon. Smack in ...

The United States and Japan agreed four years ago to move the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, now located in a dense urban area in the center of Okinawa, to Nago, a town of 60,000 in the ...