About two-thirds of an $8.9 billion budget has been spent on a facility to accommodate U.S. Marines relocating from bases on ...

Outside of the mainland, the US military has fighter jets permanently deployed in Japan, South Korea, and Hawaii, although ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday met with Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi to seek local understanding for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base to the southern Japan ...

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — Marines who normally man a desk stepped behind machine guns at a firing range on this northern Okinawa base recently to hone their skills defending a command post. About 30 ...

This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. Amphibious warship USS New Orleans (LPD-18) left Okinawa, Japan, on Thursday, sailing toward U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, on ...

A long-running plan to change the location of a U.S. military base in Okinawa has finally received approval from the governor of the Japanese state. The struggle over the base has been going on for ...

A major fire broke out aboard the USS New Orleans amphibious warship near Okinawa, Japan, prompting an emergency response from both American Navy crews and Japanese Coast Guard vessels. The incident ...