Japan pays the US $1.4 billion each year for the bases in Okinawa, which underpin their military alliance. Okinawa, Japan's ...

"My position is that I accept the current Japan-U.S. alliance," Tamaki says in an interview. "But because U.S. military bases are overly concentrated in Okinawa, I have been telling the Japanese ...

Japan's wartime military, in an attempt to delay a U.S ... Because of the U.S. bases, Okinawa faces noise, pollution, accidents and crime related to American troops, Tamaki said.

young people feel that there is nothing we can do about the U.S. military bases, since they already exist, and that they are also necessary for the defense of Japan,” Shima said. Okinawa’s ...

Japan’s Okinawa islands still have an outsize importance to U.S. military operations in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in deterring a Chinese attack against Taiwan. It has been fifty years since ...

KUHN: Okinawa hosts 70% of U.S. military bases and more than half of the 54,000 U.S. military personnel in Japan on less than 1% of its land. Polls show about 70% of Okinawans feel that's unfair ...

Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are under investigation for ... is suspected of raping a Japanese woman at an American military base in March, and is also suspected of injuring another woman ...

OKINAWA, Japan — President Biden and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss upgrades to the two countries' alliance that are being felt on this island, which hosts some 70% of U.S ...