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

KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...