US Japan base negotiations ahead of the 2026 cost-sharing deadline will shape force posture, Okinawa realignment, and daily ...

U.S. Marines, airmen and Japanese emergency responders practiced their skills and response times through a simulated aircraft crash at Camp Kinser.

The 5,000 U.S. Marines and 1,300 dependents now stationed in Okinawa should stay there, and the $6.2 billion Marine facilities on Guam could be used by the Army.

U.S. military personnel gather near the site of an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa on Monday. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO — An explosion at a storage ...

Analysts point to a shift in priorities among younger Okinawans as a possible factor in the alliance’s bruising defeat in the election.

Stationed in the Parliament, several women play the guitar and denounce the violations committed by American soldiers on the Japanese island, where 30,000 military personnel are still deployed. It's a ...

The United States and Japan agreed two decades ago to move Marines from Okinawa to Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific.

NAHA, Okinawa — Japan’s defense minister, on his first visit to Okinawa in his new role, repeated a promise to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint there and expand joint exercises near Japan’s ...

Philip FONG/AFP/AFP Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed into his elementary school, killing 18 people more than ...

Four Japanese soldiers sustained non-life-threatening injuries following an explosion at a storage facility for unexploded wartime ordnance on a US military base in Okinawa, local authorities ...

Denny Tamaki, born to a Japanese mother and an American US Marine father, said he wanted to see Tokyo and Washington spread the burden of hosting US troops more evenly across Japan. "I am not asking ...

TOKYO — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday it is ...