Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...

A deal to return American military land on Okinawa to the Japanese government was hailed on Wednesday as the biggest such land transfer in more than four decades. But the move is unlikely to reduce ...

Protesters hold a sign at a mass anti-U.S. base rally in Ginowan on Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa, a subtropical island about 1,600 km (1,000 miles) south of Tokyo, that hosts about half the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Sunday urged Japan's central government to do more to reduce the U.S. military presence in the southern island group as it marked the 50th anniversary of ...

The United States has returned around half of a large military training area in Okinawa to Japan in the largest transfer since 1972, when Japan regained control of the southern prefecture after its ...

An elderly man visits a height near the U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan Sunday, May 15, 2022. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO — Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Sunday urged Japan ...