Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

A wide gap exists between Okinawa Prefecture and the rest of Japan on whether the southern island prefecture should continue to host the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan, surveys showed. Sixty ...

call for Okinawa’s return to Japan in hopes that this would lead to the exit of the US military. Instead, after 1972, Tokyo closed some US bases on the mainland and allowed Americans to remain ...

A group of lawmakers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting that he looks into the higher rental costs faced by service members’ families.

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the ...

The withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Okinawa remains slow and uncertain, hindered by geopolitical tensions, bureaucratic ...

Japan’s government ... of the victims. Okinawa residents and the island's governor, Denny Tamaki, have long complained about accidents and crime related to U.S military bases, expressed anger ...

young people feel that there is nothing we can do about the U.S. military bases, since they already exist, and that they are also necessary for the defense of Japan," Shima said. Okinawa's painful ...

Okinawa, accounting for less than 1 percent of Japan's total land mass, hosts 70 percent of U.S. military bases in the country. According to official statistics, from 1972 to 2023, U.S. soldiers ...