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 ...

The new base will replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in Okinawa Prefecture. It is being built on reclaimed land off Nago’s Henoko district, and the project has ...

Anti-base sentiment in Okinawa has been displayed in particular over a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. While the central government wants to move the base to a less ...

TOKYO: Police in Okinawa, Japan, on Thursday said that two US marines are being investigated for suspected rapes, in the most ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Marine Corps scaled back its number of MV-22 Ospreys from 24 to 20 on Okinawa, Japan ... 262 and 265 based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, were among those cut.

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 ...