The Air Force’s 18th Wing is tightening approval measures for nighttime exercises after unauthorized training last month involving simulated explosions and gunfire drew complaints from a neighboring ...

call for Okinawa’s return to Japan in hopes that this would lead to the exit of the U.S. military. Instead, after 1972, Tokyo closed some U.S. bases on the mainland and allowed the Americans to ...

THE US military officially gave back to Japan yesterday a portion of the land it has ... Mr Onaga renewed his demand that Ospreys be removed from Okinawa and that any US military base planned for a ...

A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

U.S. Army and Air Force teamed up to provide Kadena Air Base Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets with ...

This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks ...

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets upon spotting China’s GJ-2 armed drone near Okinawa for the first time.

Uruma, Okinawa, Japan - February 13, 2025 A French Navy frigate and a replenishment vessel make a port call at the U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Uruma in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa ...

After the war, Okinawa remained under U.S. occupation until 1972, 20 years longer than most of Japan, and it remains host to a major U.S. military presence to this day. As Japan enjoyed a postwar ...