Human bones discovered more than a year ago at a Marine Corps base on Okinawa belong to a local man who went missing in 2018, ...

Landfill work continues for the Futenma replacement facility off the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, in December 2023. Oura Bay, with its soft seabed, lies to the right of the picture ...

It is often called “the world’s most dangerous base” because of the 167 accidents involving Futenma-based aircraft since Okinawa’s return to Japanese sovereignty in 1972.

"His main message was that the people of Okinawa want the prime minister to ask the US to return Futenma," he recalls. Eda says the Foreign Ministry was opposed to the idea. "It said the Prime ...

Denny Tamaki’s opposition to the U.S. military presence in Okinawa adds a new chapter to the Futenma relocation dispute.

Tokyo wants to move the US Futenma Air Station out of densely populated Ginowan City. Tokyo sought the Okinawa prefectural government's permission to revise the reclamation plan, but it refused.

Seven decades after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific War, Okinawa remains a battleground ... relocation of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a historical, political, and ...

A half-century since Okinawa was formally returned to Japanese control, the concentration of US military bases in the prefecture remains a source of deep frustration and division. We mark the ...