The 22-year-old Marine, assigned to MCAS Futenma, stumbled into a bar near the base’s main gate at 11:15 p.m., calling for help.

In 2003, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flew over Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma, Okinawa, looked down, and declared it to be “the most dangerous base in the world ...

Tamaki’s refusal to sign off on construction changes in November 2021 kicked off a protracted legal fight that ended Sept. 4 when Japan’s Supreme Court ordered him to approve the permits.

This move breaks the impasse between anti-base opponents and Tokyo and Washington over where to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (MCAS Futenma), which the governments in 1996 agreed to close.

The Battle of Futenma Isn’t Over Yet. The decision to grant a permit to build a U.S. Marine Corps airbase on an offshore landfill near the village of Henoko village is being hailed as an ...