Rising prices and jobs eclipse the U.S. military presence as the top concern for voters heading into a closely contested ...

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

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 ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Relocating a Marine Corps airfield from a heavily populated city on Okinawa to a rural northern area in phases would unnecessarily lengthen the time to build the new facility, ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the governor of Okinawa to approve the central government's modified plan for landfill work at the planned relocation site of a key U.S. military base on the ...

Like a child who played with matches and then begged others to put out the fire, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is now desperately seeking a solution to his self-inflicted Futenma crisis. Washington ...