NHK has learned that a new reclamation project began as part of a plan to relocate a US military base within Japan's ...

With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of ...

US president-elect Donald Trump pressured Japan to pay more for American troops stationed on its soil during his first term ...

The base, one of the largest US military installations ... provides air cover over all of southern Japan as well," he told DW. The US presence in Okinawa goes far beyond the Air Force, however ...

KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

A US army base worker has been jailed for life for rape and murder in Okinawa, in a case that sparked anti-US protests in Japan ... last year against the US military after Shinzato was arrested ...

The prefecture hosts about 70 percent of all American military facilities in Japan ... seriously the fact that Okinawa is shouldering a heavy burden in hosting US bases," Chief Cabinet Secretary ...

which loaded the territory with military bases. Today a fifth of Okinawa’s main island remains in US hands, to the frustration of most residents. Just 0.6 percent of Japan’s land mass hosts ...

young people feel that there is nothing we can do about the U.S. military bases, since they already exist, and that they are also necessary for the defense of Japan," Shima said. Okinawa's painful ...