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 ...

A wave of misleading videos pushing for Okinawa’s independence from mainland Japan is part of a wider disinformation campaign aimed at realigning the islands with China. In a recent investigation, the ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's fleet of hybrid-helicopter military aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded ...

The joint trainings were held in McGregor Range and White Sands Missile Range in the U.S. state of New Mexico. China and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, the military has ... hundreds of bases in Japan and the Pacific to surround China and the Soviet Union. Since 1995, anti-base protests have escalated in Okinawa, where there are still ...

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 ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A pair of CV-22 Ospreys from this airlift hub in western Tokyo flew to Okinawa for the first time since a deadly accident grounded the military’s entire fleet of ...