For many years, the US has been planning to reduce its footprint in southern Japan and move thousands of Marines to places ...

A Pentagon statement that it will not return Futenma to Japan until it provides a replacement runway is not new, Japan’s ...

Ginowan city found levels of “forever chemicals” well below Japan’s legal limit in water sampled from a manhole oozing white ...

A plan to shift nearly 10,000 Marines away from Okinawa would dangerously weaken deterrence against Beijing, warns an Atlantic Council report.

Relocating Marines from Okinawa would remove vital U.S. forces from the region at a time when China is doubling down on its claim on Taiwan, scholars said.

NAHA—The percentage of senior citizens in Okinawa Prefecture not receiving pensions is about double the national average, a result of the southernmost prefecture long falling under U.S. rule after ...

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There are more centenarians—those aged 99 or older—living on Japan's Okinawa islands than anywhere else in the world. Okinawa is one of the most well-known Blue Zones—places with the world's ...