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

Because of this, the SCC has made shared use of U.S. military bases on Okinawa an alliance goal ever since the establishment of the Joint/Shared Use Working Group in December 2010.

An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s ...

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

A Japanese court has ordered the governor of Okinawa to approve the central government's modified plan for landfill work at the planned relocation site of a key U.S. military base on the southern ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

Four Japanese soldiers were injured Monday following an explosion at a storage facility for unexploded ordnance located within a United States military base on Okinawa, local and defence officials ...

Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers.

At least four people have been injured following an explosion near a U.S. military air base in Japan. Local and defense ministry officials said that four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (SFD) members ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten since World War II. The 72-year-old said a brief ...