Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal over the last lawsuit on ...

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

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

The Okinawa government has pointed to the risks of significant ground subsidence after the landfill work is completed. If that's the case, it will disrupt the operation of the new base.

Unless corrective measures are made, and quickly, the anti-U.S. military base sentiment and movement in Okinawa will grow, damaging Japan-U.S. cooperation at a crucial time. The Ministry of ...

Under the agreement, 5,000 will move to Guam from Okinawa, with thousands more to relocate to bases in Hawaii, Australia and the contiguous U.S. Officials did not publish a timeline for when the ...

They also argued that the central government’s budget for Okinawa’s promotion had been reduced because of Tamaki’s deepening confrontation with Tokyo over the U.S. base issue. Tamaki has ...

The central government and Okinawa have long been at odds over the transfer of the Futenma base from a crowded residential district in Ginowan to the Henoko coastal area in Nago. Okinawa has ...