Japan’s rapid military build-up is worrying residents of the Okinawa islands close to Taiwan, their governor said Thursday, ...

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

Governor Denny Tamaki has submitted a formal plan to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aiming to boost the incomes of islanders ...

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 ...