An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Japan Engineer District (USACE JED) is nearing completion on a modern headquarters building designed to significantly enhance ...

KITA-NAKAGUSUKU, Okinawa Prefecture--A park created from a residential area at a U.S. military base here has opened to the public ahead of its handover to Japan. The Lower Plaza Housing Area at ...

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II ...

Recently, the military has built new bases and ... Since 1995, anti-base protests have escalated in Okinawa, where there are still more than 30 bases. A “temporary” base has existed since ...

In 2012, the U.S. announced a plan to relocate 9,000 Marines from Okinawa, where military bases are seen as a burden. Residents have complained about pollution, noise, and helicopter-related ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

Thai naval cadets are training with U.S. sailors and the United Nations Command-Rear this week during the Thai navy’s first port call on Okinawa in more than two decades.

A Japanese high court has ruled in favor of the central government in a long-running dispute over a plan to relocate a US military base within Okinawa Prefecture. A high court on Wednesday ordered ...