Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

However, officials declined to provide a full list of the targeted sites. The U.S. military operates 31 bases on Okinawa and shares another with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. Marine Corps ...

These costs have heightened debate over whether the United States needs so many ... Since 1995, anti-base protests have escalated in Okinawa, where there are still more than 30 bases.

a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam instead. The small reshuffling marked a major milestone ...

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 on Feb. 13, 2025.

The United States has around 30,000 active troops in Okinawa deployed in numerous bases across the main island, including some in the middle of built-up residential areas. Washington has ...

In 2016, the rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman by a former US base worker in Okinawa triggered mass protests in the island’s capital, with tens of thousands of residents demanding the US ...

A Japanese high court has ruled in favor of the central government in a long-running dispute over a plan to relocate a US military base within Okinawa Prefecture. A high court on Wednesday ordered ...

This is the first time the Marines cut their head count on Okinawa as part of a deal between Washington and Tokyo to shrink an oversized American military presence on the Pacific island that dates bac ...

A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy was taken into custody after a bullet was discovered in his baggage at Naha Airport on ...

only about 20 remained as of the end of September following a decision the previous December to fly the jets back to bases in the United States for decommissioning, according to the Okinawa ...