KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

Prior to that, Okinawa was known as the Kingdom of the ... before finding better-paying work at a housing agency on a U.S. base. While working at the restaurant, she met Pedro Badilla, 23, a ...

But when they left Okinawa, Japan, in 2022 for Camp Pendleton in Southern California, finding an affordable home to rent using his military housing allowance became an almost impossible challenge.