A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of ...

The United States will deploy an undisclosed number of Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Tritons at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan's ...

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 ...

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Okinawa — Thai naval cadets are training ... U.N. Command-Rear, headquartered at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, coordinates reinforcements that would be sent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the security environment around the country was becoming increasingly severe ...