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

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the ...

China is ramping up its military actions and raising tensions in the Nansei Islands. Japan is bolstering its presence in ...

OKINAWA, Japan – Ms Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with US ...

Okinawa is a mirror that reflects the flaws and poverty of politics in Japan. Do political leaders develop policies while paying serious attention to public opinion? Do they heed dissenting voices ...

Following a meeting of the Special Action Committee on Okinawa, the United States in 1996 ... ahead of other U.S. military sites located south of the Kadena Air Base, and the local governments ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 21.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces have placed an order for 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinooks (Extended Range) transport helicopters, ...

At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Japanese military quickly ... between Japan and the United States began soon after the U.S. Forces landed on the main island of Okinawa on April 1st ...

Admiral Samuel Paparo, who commands the U.S. fleet in the Indo-Pacific region, believes that the Chinese government "has ...

The first 105 U.S. Marines originally assigned to Okinawa have moved to Guam, marking the start of a long-planned relocation under a 2012 agreement between the United States ... TIED TO THE BASES. AT ...

United States, took place in May in Hawaii ... Wyatt Olson is based in the Honolulu bureau, where he has reported on military and security issues in the Indo-Pacific since 2014.