The U.S. Marine Corps and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s (JGSDF) bilateral exercise “Iron Fist 26” will see approximately ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

Japan’s defense minister promised to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint there and expand joint exercises near Japan’s southwestern islands.

A water outage in southern and central Okinawa that was resolved by Tuesday afternoon had minimal effects on U.S. military installations on the island, according to the military and the prefecture.

Denny Tamaki, born to a Japanese mother and an American US Marine father, said he wanted to see Tokyo and Washington spread the burden of hosting US troops more evenly across Japan. "I am not asking ...

The incumbent mayor and two challengers filed their candidacies on Sunday for the Jan. 25 mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, which will focus on the planned relocation of a U.S. military ba ...

A long-running plan to change the location of a U.S. military base in Okinawa has finally received approval from the governor of the Japanese state. The struggle over the base has been going on for ...