The Marine Corps stood up a unit meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific on Tuesday, ...

The U.S. military operates 31 bases on Okinawa and shares another with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. Marine Corps Installations Pacific is aware of the threat and is working with Japanese ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...