U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their ...

Tokyo and Washington agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 of the 19,000 Marines stationed on Okinawa, including 4,000 to ...

US Marines stationed in Okinawa reportedly started to transfer to Guam on Saturday after years of complaints by local ...

At midnight on May 15, 1972, the moment the handover took place, Ishikawa was on a footbridge overlooking Naha’s Kokusai-dori main street in front of the Okinawa Mitsukoshi department store. It ...

A U.S. Air Force member stationed in Okinawa Prefecture was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for kidnapping and ...

Fifty years ago, on May 15, 1972, Uezu was mowing lawns in Los Angeles to make a living. In the early afternoon, a colleague who was born in Okinawa Prefecture rushed over to Uezu and shouted ...

Okinawa, which was under U.S. postwar occupation until 1972, is still home to a majority of the more than 50,000 American troops based in Japan under a bilateral security pact, while 70 percent of U.S ...

Prosecutors sought a seven-year jail term for Washington. Okinawa continues to bear a heavy load as host to many U.S. military facilities more than half a century after its 1972 reversion from U.S.

NAHA, Okinawa — The Japanese government will begin magnetic surveys for unexploded ordnance at Okinawa’s main commercial airport next week. The government began the surveys at Miyazaki Airport ...