TOKYO - Once thought possible within five to seven years, the return to Japan of land used for a U.S. military base in Okinawa remains a distant hope for local residents, three decades after Tokyo and ...

Thirty years have passed since Japan and the United States agreed to fully return the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to local control. Yet the base remains, and ...

NAHA--In the first meeting of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki, both sides remained far apart on the contentious relocation of a U.S. military air station within the ...

Inamine, a former businessman, was first elected leader of Okinawa in the 1998 gubernatorial election, in which the ...

The government has already decisively escalated its confrontation with Okinawa Prefecture over the contentious project to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in Okinawa to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled that three plaintiffs have standing to continue their lawsuit challenging the Japanese ...

GINOWAN, OKINAWA PREF. – Okinawa International University President Hajime Asato called for the immediate closure of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma air station, at a gathering Thursday to mark 22 ...

The U.S. Marine Corps and Okinawa Defense Bureau are searching for a 40-pound bag of signal flares that fell from a helicopter over northern Okinawa this week. A UH-1Y Venom with Marine Light Attack ...