The redeployments would encourage allies to shoulder more of their defense and leave U.S. forces less vulnerable to mass ...

An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers ...

Given the current state of the world, with turmoil in the Middle East and the ever-present saber rattling from China over ...

Rich Patterson's dad, Henry Patterson, served in the Navy during WWII. Rich and his wife, Marion, drove to the Rock Island ...

One of my most frequented spots in Okinawa is American Village – a patchwork neighborhood of shops, restaurants, and ...

A senior officer of the US Marine Corps on Thursday apologized to Okinawa Prefecture over the recent conviction of a Marine ...

The U.S. military wants to continue live-fire training at Pohakuloa, a high-altitude plateau on Hawaii’s Big Island ...

ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa ...

Japan jails US marine for seven years for sexual assault in Okinawa - Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton sentenced for attack on woman in her 20s ...

A US Marine has been sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted of strangling and sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa, a Japanese district court ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa, sentencing him to prison terms, in ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.