U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks in the Brady Press briefing room on the mid-air crash between ...

Air Force civil engineers are inspecting another 263 homes for spalling concrete, a month after announcing families in ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Failing concrete in housing units has prompted the 18th ... a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor ...

Japan’s government ... of the victims. Okinawa residents and the island's governor, Denny Tamaki, have long complained about accidents and crime related to U.S military bases, expressed anger ...

Part of that plan includes booting roughly 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa, an island that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's total land mass, but houses 70% of all U.S. military facilities in the ...

A year before the reversion, then-Okinawa leader Chobyo Yara submitted a petition asking Japan’s central government to make the island free of military bases. Today, however, a majority of the ...

A U.S. Marine was not indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year in Okinawa Prefecture, prosecutors said Thursday.

In response, the U.S. and Japan ... housing market. In addition, the island’s power supply, which is primarily provided by the Guam Power Authority, is widely reported as unstable, with military ...

Tamaki and other Okinawan officials fled formal complaints over the alleged sexual assaults with U.S. military commands, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the Japanese government. Okinawa is Japan's ...

On January 7, 2025, dozens of Japanese protesters gathered in front of Japan's Ministry of Defense ... Air Station Futenma to Henoko in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture. Mexican president hits ...

Japan has been stepping up ... squad on Yonaguni island and expanded its military base on the island to accommodate a soon-to-be-deployed air defense force. A surface-to-ship missile unit was also ...