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

A group of lawmakers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting that he looks into the higher rental costs ...

Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this ...

NAHA--Okinawa ... bases. According to Tamaki, although Okinawa Prefecture accounts for about 0.6 percent of the nation's land area, it hosts 70.3 percent of all U.S. military facilities in Japan.

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

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 ...

Okinawa, accounting for less than 1 percent of Japan's total land mass, hosts 70 percent of U.S. military bases in the country. According to official statistics, from 1972 to 2023, U.S. soldiers ...

young people feel that there is nothing we can do about the U.S. military bases, since they already exist, and that they are also necessary for the defense of Japan," Shima said. Okinawa's painful ...