Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon.

Japan's Defense Ministry on Saturday began ground improvement work on the Oura Bay side of the Henoko coastal area in Okinawa Prefecture, as part of a U.S. base relocation project in the ...

In Okinawa Prefecture, 118 such cases were reported ... the highest number in at least the past five years. As Japan's population ages, support for people with dementia and their families will ...

NAHA—The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously ... measures to prevent a recurrence as well as revisions to the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement, which grants privileged status to ...

But on May 15, the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. military control, Uezu was in the Okinawa prefectural capital of Naha. After looking at the situation in Okinawa ...

Brian McElhiney is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Okinawa, Japan. He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon.

FILE - A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena Town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.

The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop ...

TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of ...

About 886,700 tourists visited Okinawa in the April to October period this year, a 12.5% increase from a year earlier, according to local government data. Japan saw ¥767 billion in hotel ...

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Camp Blaz, Guam, shown here in 2023, 12 years after Japan and the U.S. agreed on their realignment to reduce U.S. troop presence on Okinawa.

"A major milestone has been reached since the relocation of the U.S. Marines in Okinawa to Guam was stipulated in the U.S.-Japan Roadmap for Realignment Implementation in May 2006," the Japanese ...