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

The Tritons, which arrived at the 18th Wing’s home in May, carried out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ...

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.

It is the first Osprey deployment in Japan by the U.S. Navy. MV-22s, the variant used by the Marine ... in Okinawa and CV-22s, used by the U.S. Air Force, operate from the Yokota base in the ...

Despite strong local opposition, the Japanese government is pushing ahead with its plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Air ... not building a new base" in Okinawa, which hosts some 70 percent of ...

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 ...

Protesters hold a rally in front of U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab to protest the relocation of the Marines' Futenma air station to the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, ahead of the ...

The Japan Self-Defense Force struggles ... its deployments of fighter jets and Marine Corps units to Okinawa. The Air Force ...

In 2016, Japan established a military base on Yonaguni ... to a greater American presence, given Okinawa’s long tail of problems. But as a marine officer affirmed to this author: “We have ...

“Japan is a vital ally ... up one of the first MQ-9 Reaper units at Kadena. At Camp Hansen Marine Corps base in Okinawa, Hoeven met with Lt. Gen. Roger Turner, commander of the Third Marine ...