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 ...

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

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 ...

After the war, Americans occupied and administered Okinawa. In 1972, administration of the island reverted back to Japan, but American military bases remain to this day. They exist not only to ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...