As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

The Marine Corps stood up a unit meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific on Tuesday, ...

which prompted a protest by about 2,000 at the Marine Corps base in central Okinawa. The protesters wanted U.S. military bases removed from Okinawa.

The U.S. military operates 31 bases on Okinawa and shares another with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. Marine Corps Installations Pacific is aware of the threat and is working with Japanese ...

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China. The American base on Okinawa has ...

Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and ... protests at the front gate of a new U.S. Marine airfield being built on Okinawa’s northern end. Credit ...

The U.S. military in Japan has charged a Marine with rape and other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the alleged sexual assault of 14-year old girl in Okinawa. Staff Sgt. Tyrone ...

The 12th Marine Littoral Regiment welcomes its final element, the 12th Littoral Combat Team, during a March 3 ceremony on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. (Staff Sgt. JVonnta Taylor/Marine Corps ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come ... to take over the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ...

The rest of the Marine Corps' troops being redeployed from Okinawa are being sent to Australia ... home to around 70% of the bases. It is often known as the "Keystone of the Pacific," due to ...

A woman opposed to U.S. military presence on Okinawa was convicted in a Japanese court recently on 16 counts related to her ...