F-22 Raptors sent to Okinawa to bolster US air power in response ... Also boasting extensive naval facilities, it is a crucial US presence in the region and would be central to any future conflict ...

The burden of hosting U.S. military bases continues to be a serious issue for Okinawa, even half a century after its return to Japan. Denny Tamaki met with Prime Minister Abe and the U.S. embassy ...

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 ...

Japanese forces prepare for amphibious warfare on Okinawa.” They reported on an hourlong amphibious landing exercise carried out by the Marines and Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade ...

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 ...

meaning the missiles on Miyakojima cannot cover the entire area through which Chinese naval and other ships often pass. Setting up an SSM base on the main Okinawa island would provide coverage ...

Japanese prosecutors have charged a US Air Force member with allegedly kidnapping and raping an underage girl just before Christmas last year, Okinawa ... in Japan, a US Navy officer killed ...