About two-thirds of an $8.9 billion budget has been spent on a facility to accommodate U.S. Marines relocating from bases on ...

Japan’s defense minister promised to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint there and expand joint exercises near Japan’s ...

The air base, located in a densely populated area in Okinawa’s Ginowan, is to be moved to the Henoko coastal area in Nago.

Outside of the mainland, the US military has fighter jets permanently deployed in Japan, South Korea, and Hawaii, although ...

TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa’s incumbent governor who opposes an ongoing U.S. Marine base relocation forced by Japan's central government and calls for a further reduction of American troops on the southern ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday met with Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi to seek local understanding for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base to the southern Japan ...