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 ...

Pending repairs to the island airfield, the Air Force’s 18th Wing since December 2023 has made its training drops about once ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Okinawa. "We will keep doing all we can to realize the full return of the Futenma air station site as soon as possible and reduce the burden of hosting the base," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary ...