NHK has learned that a new reclamation project began as part of a plan to relocate a US military base within Japan's ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture ... States in 1996 agreed to return to Japan about 5,000 hectares of land used by the U.S. military, including the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

Caitlyn Webber stands with packages containing donated books at her home on Okinawa, Nov. 6, 2024. Webber, a Marine Corps ...

Members of groups who oppose U.S. bases ... to visit Okinawa almost every year before the COVID-19 pandemic. She said she is saddened thinking about the project to relocate U.S. Marine Corps ...

Once the island kingdom of Ryukyu, Okinawa is set at the farthest south of Japan’s marine expanse and is famous for its shimmering ... a riot of colours and forms has the nearby Kadena Air Base to ...

A team in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Infrastructure associate directorate came together to honor a colleague ...

Japan's fleet of hybrid-helicopter military aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following an ...

The aircraft was carrying 16 people when it “became unstable” on takeoff from a Japanese military base on Yonaguni, a remote ...

3. Discover Churaumi Aquarium Churaumi Aquarium is quintessential when you’re in Okinawa. Regarded as one of Japan’s best and largest aquariums, Churaiumi houses an incredible variety of marine life ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese ordnance disposal experts plan to defuse two suspected World War II-era bombs found last ...

In her native Philippines, Joy Baumgartner worked as a nurse, and her favorite thing was delivering babies. She never ...

You’ll still find the word Ryukyu throughout Naha, the sunny, cosmopolitan capital of Okinawa Island. While most of Japan is still shivering its way through March, Naha and its tanned locals are ...