The U.S. military operates 31 bases on Okinawa and shares another with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. Marine Corps Installations Pacific is aware of the threat and is working with Japanese ...

The Americans had been there her whole life, when the United States seized Okinawa from Japan after ... exit of the U.S. military. Instead, after 1972, Tokyo closed some U.S. bases on the mainland ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japanese police are investigating ... demanded in a Tuesday bomb threat against 32 U.S. military installations on Okinawa, which was sent via emails to the Okinawa ...

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China. The American base on Okinawa has ...

Okinawa is a mirror that reflects the flaws and poverty of politics in Japan ... s missile capabilities, the United States is making a major shift in its military strategy focused on downsizing ...

A French Navy frigate is making a port call at a US military base in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The vessel is taking part in a trilateral exercise with Japan and the United States in ...

Uruma, Okinawa, Japan - February 13, 2025 A French Navy frigate and a replenishment vessel make a port call at the U.S. Navy's White Beach base in Uruma ... Guide Timelapse map of Russian ...

In spring 2022, we learned that Okinawa, Japan, would be our next home. I had been a military spouse for seven years, but my husband's medical training had allowed us stability. We lived in New ...

Although Okinawa only accounts for 0.6 percent of Japan ... the United States formally relinquished control of Okinawa Prefecture. Compared to 50 years ago, land used by the U.S. military ...

Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam instead. The small reshuffling marked a ...

Japan and its ally, the United States, hold joint military ... Forces base on Yonaguni. (AP Photo/AP) Fear of a Taiwan war rekindles bitter memories here of the Battle of Okinawa, in which about ...

Citing satellite imagery, he has warned that Beijing has “significantly increased” the number of missiles capable of attacking Japan The military preparation is probably to cripple the US’s ...