The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

The commandant of the Marine Corps expressed concern Wednesday over a U.S. agreement with the Japanese government that requires the service to move thousands of its troops off of Okinawa.

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main ...

The U.S. Marines said water contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) was released into the sewage system from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan. According to Okinawa ...

According to the Defense Ministry, U.S. military facilities cover about 18,500 hectares of Okinawa Prefecture, or 8 percent of the prefecture’s land. That means Okinawa Prefecture hosts around ...

Dozens of U.S. and Japanese military aircraft held training around Okinawa Island in the Western Pacific Ocean.

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero and Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, commander of Joint Task Force-Micronesia, convened a meeting of the ...

After a South Korean news outlet fed into far-right conspiracies by reporting that "Chinese spies" tampering with the country ...

Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a pivotal role should Beijing order the invasion of Taiwan.