Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki immediately released a statement saying the move went against his government’s desire to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases concentrated in the prefecture.

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

Okinawa bears a disproportionate burden for the alliance, with 70 percent of U.S. bases in Japan located ... and trolls incite opposition to the U.S. military presence. Some even go as far as ...

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Okinawa — Thai naval cadets are training ... The U.N. Command, established in 1950 as a multinational military force to support South Korea during the Korean War ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to expand a two-year-old army base on Ishigaki Island ... Keishi Koja is an Okinawa-based reporter/translator who joined Stars and Stripes in August 2022.

dealing a huge blow to Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki and his opposition to a U.S. military base plan. The 48 seats in assembly were up for grabs in the June 16 election. The two sides held 24 ...

The United States military will deploy long-range surveillance drones in the southern Japanese region of Okinawa near Taiwan, ...

A once-mighty independent kingdom and indigenous culture that linked ancient Japanese, Chinese and Southeast Asian kingdoms together in trade, now at once part of and apart from Japan, yet still ...

which was returned to Japan from the U.S. military in 2015. "This is one of the visible results of reducing Okinawa's base-hosting burden," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said at the ...