CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa, including scores of U.S. military bases, battened down Monday and braced for Jangmi, the first typhoon to hit the island in nearly three years. At 10:30 a.m., ...

As part of a June exercise between the GSDF and the U.S. Marine Corps, the two are considering a plan to airlift a mock ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Typhoon Jangmi — the first major storm to strike Okinawa in nearly three years — passed over the island Monday evening with little damage reported at U.S. military installations ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Vitalie Ciubotaru In Japan, there are 76 exclusive-use U.S. military bases, hosted at the ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and U.S. Navy Sailors with the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD-18) conduct onload operations at White Beach Naval Base, Okinawa ...

Hundreds of activists took part in a peace march in Okinawa on May 13 to call for the removal of U.S. bases from the southernmost prefecture and to remember the devastation left by World War II.

An Osprey transport aircraft of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is expected to use a U.S. military base in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa for the first time in an upcoming exercise ...